You Don't Have to Say You Love Me: A Memoir

Throughout, a portrait emerges of his mother as a beautiful, mercurial, abusive, intelligent, complicated woman. Featuring 78 poems and 78 essays, Alexie shares raw, angry, funny, profane, tender memories of a childhood few can imagine - growing up dirt poor on an Indian reservation, one of four children raised by alcoholic parents. The result is this stunning memoir. One of the most anticipated books of 2017 - Entertainment Weekly and BustleA searing, deeply moving memoir about family, love, and loss from a critically acclaimed, best-selling National Book Award winner. You Don't Have to Say You Love Me is a powerful account of a complicated relationship, an unflinching and unforgettable remembrance.. When his mother passed away at the age of 78, Sherman Alexie responded the only w

I actually don't have any idea what to say SpiceIsNice I'm rarely at a loss for words in reviews. I don't review frequently, but always review passionately, and "passion" usually comes easily for me. But though I feel as passionately about this book as I've ever felt about any other, my words have failed me anyway. I want, so much, to describe the way this book made me feel, but nothing I can even think to say seems adequate. I admit that went to bed early, and then set an alarm to read this book. I've read none of the author's other work, but, with my own father in poor health, and a past between us I've never come to grips. This is unlike any other memoir I've ever picked up Sherman Alexie is a Spokane/Coeur d’Alene Indian writer from Wellpinit, Washington, where he grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. He is best known for such titles as THE ABSOLUTELY TRUE DIARY OF A PART-TIME INDIAN, THE LONE RANGER AND TONTO FISTFIGHT IN HEAVEN and FLIGHT. He has written critically acclaimed poems, novels and short stories, and now has bestowed upon his readership a memoir.Alexie’s mother died from small-cell cancer on July 1, 2015. The memoir Alexie wrote as a result of her death follows a grieving son as he tries to come to terms with . You Don't Have to Love This Memoir, But You Just Might Until this book, I'd only read Alexie's THE LONE RANGE AND TONTO FISTFIGHT IN HEAVEN and heard him speak at an authors' panel. I knew that he was something of a gadfly, in that he is unabashedly Native yet contemporary. I wasn't prepared for how astonishing and powerful this memoir is--reading it was like reading a book I've been waiting for my entire life. Yes, it is long, and lumpy, and idiosyncratic. Alexie's poetry may not be the most artful or poetically-traditional. But the candor and honesty on display in these pages feels like more than a person stripping himself