num_pages: 318
description: As children, Roy and Alison Smith were so close their mother called them by one Alroy. But on a cool summer morning when she was fifteen, Alison woke to learn that Roy, three years older, was dead. While her Catholic parents wrestled with their faith and their grief, Alison made the mourners coffee, went to school to be taught by the nuns, and - being all her parents had left - set about coping. But underneath run her private rituals of mourning, her increasing idiosyncrasies, unnoticed by her parents trying to heal themselves and teachers anxious to be kind. Until suddenly, Alison begins to realize something's wrong. This is a book about grief, but it's also a love story, about Alison's love of her brother, of her childhood, and finally of life.
language: English
title: Name All the Animals
titlecomplete: Name All the Animals
genres: Biography, Coming Of Age, Lesbian, Death, Queer, Nonfiction, Biography Memoir, Adult, Memoir, LGBT
ratings_count: 3239
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Autobiography/Memoir, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: The Publishing Triangle Award
category: The Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction
publisher: Scribner