You don't have to say you love me : a memoir / Sherman Alexie.
By: Alexie, Sherman [author.].
Publisher: New York, NY : Little, Brown and Company, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Edition: First edition.Description: 457 pages ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780316270755.Other title: You do not have to say you love me.Subject(s): Alexie, Sherman, 1966- | Alexie, Sherman, 1966- | Alexie, Sherman 1966- | Alexie, Sherman, 1966- -- Biography | 1900-1999 | Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography | Mothers and sons -- United States -- Biography | Indians of North America -- Biography | Mothers and sons -- United States -- Biography | Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography | Indians of North America -- Biography | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Native Americans | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Personal Memoirs | Authors, American | Indians of North America | Mothers and sons | Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography | Mothers and sons -- United States -- Biography | Indians of North America -- Biography | United StatesGenre/Form: Print books.Summary: When his mother passed away at the age of 78, Sherman Alexie responded the only way he knew how: he wrote. The result is this memoir. Featuring 78 poems and 78 essays, Alexie shares raw, angry, funny, profane, tender memories of a childhood few can imagine -- growing up dirt-poor on an Indian reservation, one of four children raised by alcoholic parents. Throughout, a portrait emerges of his mother as a beautiful, mercurial, abusive, intelligent, complicated woman. You Don't Have To Say You Love Me is an account of a complicated relationship, an unflinching and unforgettable remembrance.Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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When his mother passed away at the age of 78, Sherman Alexie responded the only way he knew how: he wrote. The result is this memoir. Featuring 78 poems and 78 essays, Alexie shares raw, angry, funny, profane, tender memories of a childhood few can imagine -- growing up dirt-poor on an Indian reservation, one of four children raised by alcoholic parents. Throughout, a portrait emerges of his mother as a beautiful, mercurial, abusive, intelligent, complicated woman. You Don't Have To Say You Love Me is an account of a complicated relationship, an unflinching and unforgettable remembrance.