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Dog flowers : a memoir / Danielle Geller
- Author
- Geller, Danielle
- Published
- New York : One World, [2021]
- Edition
- First edition.
- Physical Description
- 260 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Contents
- I. And boy it just burns me up -- It was my fault but also -- II. Another likely story -- Little Bit -- Because I'm not that kind of bitch -- [Apocalypse] -- [Pretty Little Thing] -- I would still now want him with me -- So I can take-care of him -- Nobody is ever -- III. I woke up with a dream about me & mom & dad & Christmas and how the light of God pulling me into the life that is now teaching what I have to do -- Them supposeable being -- [Exhaustion] -- The Art of Living Dangerously -- Knowing it was just another one of his lies -- IV. I Love Them So! -- [Little Sheep] -- [Beauty] -- [Nursing Home] -- [I Tried to Say] -- [Little Tweets] -- [Solitary] -- Still cruising -- [Cat Killer] -- [Dumpster] -- [Correspondence] -- [Changing Woman] -- [Selvage].
- Summary
- "After Danielle Geller's mother dies of a vicious withdrawal from drugs while homeless, she is forced to return to Florida. Using her training as a librarian and archivist, Geller collects her mother's documents, diaries, and photographs into a single suitcase and begins on a journey of confronting her family, her harrowing past, and the decisions she's been forced to make, a journey that will end at her mother's home--the Navajo reservation. Geller masterfully intertwines wrenching prose with archival documents to create a deeply moving narrative of loss and inheritance that pays homage to our pasts, traditions, heritage, and the family we are given, and the ones we choose"--
- Subject(s)
- Geller, Danielle
- Geller, Danielle—Family
- Navajo Indians—Biography
- Mothers and daughters
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / Native American & Aboriginal
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / Native American Studies
- Families
- Navajo Indians
- Mother-daughter relationship—Biography
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 9781984820396 hardcover
1984820397 hardcover - Endowment Note
- Paterno Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries)
View MARC record | catkey: 36149234