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Dog Flowers: A Memoir
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A daughter returns home to the Navajo reservation to confront her family's troubled history and retrace her mother's life—using both narrative and archive in this unforgettable and heart-wrenching memoir. After Danielle Geller's mother dies of a withdrawal from alcohol during a period of 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's history 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, the family we are given, and the family we choose.
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"With her simple, direct writing style, Geller lets them stand on their own ..."
"riveting and searching ..."
"the author expertly weaves her story into Laureen's, comparing her memories with her mother's records ..."
"Weaving stories from her childhood as well as from the present, Gellar describes in rich detail a family life filled with patterns of neglect, abuse, and mental illness mixed with moments of joy and humor."
"The author's accounts of her family members' struggles with addiction are heartbreaking and the narrative is punctuated with haunting photographs and her own childhood drawings."
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