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Dog flowers : a memoir / Danielle Geller.
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN: 9781984820396 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 260 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York : One World, [2021]
- Copyright: ©2021
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| Subject: | Geller, Danielle. Geller, Danielle > Family. Navajo women > Biography. Indigenous peoples > United States > Biography. Children of drug addicts > United States > Biography. |
| Genre: | Biographies. Autobiographies. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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- Baker & Taylor
An award-winning essayist draws on archival documents in a narrative account that explores how her familyâs troubled past and the death of her mother, a homeless alcoholic, reflected the traditions and tragic history of her Navajo heritage. Illustrations. - Baker & Taylor
"After Danielle Geller's mother dies of a vicious withdrawal from drugs while homelessness, 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"-- - Random House, Inc.
A daughter returns home to the Navajo reservation to retrace her motherâs life in a memoir that is both a narrative and an archive of one familyâs troubled history.
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âA candid and achingly fractured memoir of [Gellerâs] mother, her family, her Navajo heritage and her own journey to self-discovery and acceptance.ââMs.
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SHORTLISTED FOR: The Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize, The Jim Deva Prize for Writing That Provokes ⢠ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Esquire, She Reads
When Danielle Gellerâs mother dies of alcohol withdrawal during an attempt to get sober, Geller returns to Florida and finds her motherâs life packed into eight suitcases. Most were filled with clothes, except for the last one, which contained diaries, photos, and letters, a few undeveloped disposable cameras, dried sage, jewelry, and the bandana her mother wore on days she skipped a hair wash.
Geller, an archivist and a writer, uses these pieces of her motherâs life to try and understand her motherâs relationship to home, and their shared need to leave it. Geller embarks on a journey where she confronts her family's history and the decisions that she herself had been forced to make while growing up, a journey that will end at her mother's home: the Navajo reservation.
Dog Flowers is an arresting, photo-lingual memoir that masterfully weaves together images and text to examine mothers and mothering, sisters and caretaking, and colonized bodies. Exploring loss and inheritance, beauty and balance, Danielle Geller pays homage to our pasts, traditions, and heritage, to the families we are given and the families we choose.
