Dog flowers A memoir
Book - 2021
"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"--
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- Subjects
- Genres
- Autobiographies
Biography
Biographies - Published
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New York :
One World
[2021]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- First edition
- Physical Description
- 260 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBN
- 9781984820396
- Creator
- 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]
- [Ghanging Woman]
- [Selvage]
- Acknowledgments