The boy and the dog are sleeping
By: Nasdijj
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780345453891
Subjects: North American Indians; AIDS (Disease) in children; Child; Navajo Indians; Patients; Biography; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Description: In this remarkable follow-up to his award-winning The Blood Runs Like a River Through My Dreams, pseudo-Native American author Nasdijj documents another father-son relationship. Here, the author relates how eleven-year-old Awee came to live with him, bringing along a life of abuse and AIDS, whom the author adopted after Tommy's death.
Table of contents: title: 1.; title: The Songs of Gods to Me (In which Awee's father brings him to meet Nasdijj) -- 1 -- 2.; title: Blue Jays (In which Awee hits home runs) -- 13 -- 3.; title: Something of the Light Will Last (In which Awee has his first night in his new home) -- 29 -- 4.; title: Care for Coyotes (In which Awee is hospitalized) -- 37 -- 5.; title: Grits His Teeth (In which Awee's new father attempts to find him more appropriate treatment than what is available at Indian hospitals -- 47 -- 6.; title: Scars (In which Nasdijj and Awee take a motorcycle trip through Texas) -- 63 -- 7.; title: Head in Fridge (In which Nasdijj and Awee stop in a city so Awee might have access to health care -- 83 -- 8.; title: Milkweed Pods (In which Awee plays in milkweed pods and woods) -- 95 -- 9.; title: All His Good-bye-Buried Dreams (In which Awee symbolically buries issues from his past) -- 101 -- 10.; title: Kissing Buddha (In which Awee works with Head Start children) -- 119 -- 11.; title: Jack Knife (In which Awee has crush) -- 123 -- 12.; title: Jesus Is a Statue (In which Awee and Nasdijj attend church) -- 139 -- 13.; title: Two Dying Boys Dancing in Pajamas (In which Awee finds a friend on a pediatric AIDS ward) -- 145 -- 14.; title: Dances with Girls (In which Awee turns twelve) -- 151 -- 15.; title: Jimmy Dog Is Building Houses (In which Nasdijj's cousin, Jimmy Dog, builds a hogan) -- 169 -- 16.; title: The Trembler (In which Nasdijj and Awee seek out a Navajo healer) -- 181 -- 17.; title: Motel (In which Nasdijj and Awee go to the Albuquerque zoo) -- 193 -- 18.; title: Secrets of the Mountain Gods (In which Awee attends Navajo sings) -- 201 -- 19.; title: That Swallowed Us (In which Nasdijj and Awee wait in a waiting room at an AIDS clinic) -- 213 -- 20.; title: Baseball (In which Awee plays baseball) -- 221 -- 21.; title: Crow Dog (In which Crow Dog finds Nasdijj and Awee) -- 227 -- 22.; title: Barbershop (In which Awee gets a haircut) -- 239 -- 23.; title: Runs with Wolves (In which Awee, Nasdijj, and Crow Dog visit the Wolf Rescue Ranch) -- 261 -- 24.; title: He Doesn't Stutter When He Sings (In which Crow Dog and Nasdijj find a baby picture of Awee) -- 267 -- 25.; title: The Roof (In which Crow Dog and Nasdijj take Awee up to the roof of the Whore Hotel) -- 273 -- 26.; title: Rocker to the Woods (In which Crow Dog and Nasdijj rock Awee in the woods) -- 287 -- 27.; title: Charity (In which Nasdijj finds relief for Awee's pain) -- 299 -- 28.; title: Geronimo's Grave (In which Nasdijj, Crow Dog, and Awee visit a cemetery in Oklahoma) -- 309 -- 29.; title: All the Way to China (In which Awee flies kites-- 317.