num_pages: 457
description: A searing deeply moving memoir about family love and loss from the critically acclaimed bestselling National Book Award winner.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 stunning memoir. Featuring 78 poems 78 essays and intimate family photographs Alexie shares raw angry funny profane tender memories of a childhood few can imaginegrowing 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 a powerful account of a complicated relationship an unflinching and unforgettable remembrance.
language: English
title: You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
publisher: Little, Brown and Company