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Dog flowers : a memoir

Call Number

  • 921 G318 (CEN)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : One World, [2021]

Physical Description

260 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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"--

Contents

  • And boy it just burns me up
  • It was my fault but also
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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].

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