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You Don't Have to Say You Love Me: A Memoir
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- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780316270748
- Book Title
- You Don't Have to Say You Love Me : a Memoir
- Item Length
- 8.2in
- Publisher
- Little Brown & Company
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.4in
- Genre
- Family & Relationships, Self-Help, Biography & Autobiography
- Topic
- Death, Grief, Bereavement, Personal Memoirs, Parenting / Motherhood, Substance Abuse & Addictions / Alcohol, Literary, Native Americans
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 15.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 464 Pages
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The Instant New York Times Bestseller A searing, deeply moving memoir about family, love, loss, and forgiveness from the critically acclaimed, bestselling National Book Award-winning author of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian . Family relationships are never simple. But Sherman Alexie's bond with his mother Lillian was more complex than most. She plunged her family into chaos with a drinking habit, but shed her addiction when it was on the brink of costing her everything. She survived a violent past, but created an elaborate facade to hide the truth. She selflessly cared for strangers, but was often incapable of showering her children with the affection that they so desperately craved. She wanted a better life for her son, but it was only by leaving her behind that he could hope to achieve it. It's these contradictions that made Lillian Alexie a beautiful, mercurial, abusive, intelligent, complicated, and very human woman. When she passed away, the incongruities that defined his mother shook Sherman and his remembrance of her. Grappling with the haunting ghosts of the past in the wake of loss, he responded the only way he knew how: he wrote. The result is a stunning memoir filled with raw, angry, funny, profane, tender memories of a childhood few can imagine, much less survive. An unflinching and unforgettable remembrance, YOU DON'T HAVE TO SAY YOU LOVE ME is a powerful, deeply felt account of a complicated relationship.
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Publisher
Little Brown & Company
ISBN-10
0316270741
ISBN-13
9780316270748
eBay Product ID (ePID)
241011725
Product Key Features
Book Title
You Don't Have to Say You Love Me : a Memoir
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Death, Grief, Bereavement, Personal Memoirs, Parenting / Motherhood, Substance Abuse & Addictions / Alcohol, Literary, Native Americans
Publication Year
2019
Genre
Family & Relationships, Self-Help, Biography & Autobiography
Number of Pages
464 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.2in
Item Height
1.4in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
15.1 Oz
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Reviews
"Alexie is so aware of his own fallible memory and his own imperfections that this one won't make you bristle...It's readable, unpretentious, funny and deeply compassionate." -- Erin Kodicek , Amazon's Omnivoracious Blog, "This is an essay, a memoir, a history, a cry from the heart, a challenge to other Indians and a baring of his soul." -- Michael Giltz , Huffington Post, "Blends poetry and prose, and varies widely in tone as he explores old memories and new grief."-- Entertainment Weekly, Summer's 20 Must Read Books, "Full of compassion and wonder, pain and beauty and is a searing testament to the ways in which our parents and our pasts fully make us who we are as adults." -- Kristin Iversen , Nylon, "He's compulsively readable, a literary writer with the guts of a stand-up comedian." -- Jim Higgins , Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Sherman Alexie makes poetry out of the darkest parts of his (and his mother's) life... It's all a mighty attempt to understand who his mother was, who she is to him, and how to make peace with her."-- Jaime Green , Google Play, Summer Reading, "To say that I was moved by Sherman Alexie's memoir is a terrible understatement; in fact, there is a pulse in this book that has worked its way into my being and irrevocably changed how I think about my own life. Alexie's kaleidoscopic approach to storytelling is so representative of the feeling of being human, with childhood memory, relationships, love, trauma, and art all moving in and out of focus at once. At the center of YOU DON'T HAVE TO SAY YOU LOVE ME is a deep grieving, for Alexie's mother, for the ways in which parental love is imperfect, for unthinkable personal and cultural traumas. But Alexie's brilliance is in holding multiple truths, that one can experience simultaneously both trauma and hope, grief and humor, violence and love. I, like Alexie, "tend to fall in love with the unnamable," that nebulous complexity at the heart of the human experience that can only be understood by holding on to all of the pieces of your life at once, a practice both beautiful and terrifying. Alexie achieves this exquisitely, and YOU DON'T HAVE TO SAY YOU LOVE ME is an unforgettable work.-- Kelsey O'Rourke , Literati Bookstore (Ann Arbor, MI), "I am mesmerized by this book that is painful as they come yet has me hooked. [...] I cannot put it down as his raw honesty and quirky style has gripped me in some kind of way that is hard to describe. [W]hen I do things like drive to work or make dinner I keep thinking about it..."-- Sheryl Cotleur , Copperfield's Books (Sebastopol, CA), "Alexie is a consummate, unnerving and funny storyteller...pouring himself into every molten word. Courageous, anguished, grateful, and hilarious, this is an enlightening and resounding eulogy and self-portrait...all will be reaching for this confiding and concussive memoir." -- Booklist (Starred Review), "The overwhelming takeaway from Mr. Alexie's memoir is triumph, that of one writer's ability to overcome hardscrabble roots, medical bad luck and generations of systemic racism--all through an uncommon command of language and metaphor." -- James Yeh , New York Times, "'How does one deliver an honest eulogy?' Alexie asks. And 'how does one commemorate/ the ordinary?' The answer is to remember, confess, pray, rant, and ask more questions. Alexie does all these and more in this powerful, poignant memoir of his mother, a woman so complex she's an entire tribe of contradictions. Did she love him? Did he love her? He answers yes, but worries the questions through stories by turns angry, funny, and raw, and through a dazzling range of poems that include everything from ballads to rhymed couplets to a tour de force sequence of 52 haiku, each as perfect as the squares in the quilts his mother sewed to support the family. While his father steadily drank himself to death, Alexie's mother was a recovering alcoholic who kept her family alive, if often hungry, in an unfinished HUD house on the Spokane Indian Reservation. She was honored by her tribe for her strength and generosity, yet she was often cruel to her children. With this jarring inconsistency at the heart of his brave, compassionate, book, Alexie traces a lineage of violence so powerful it causes victims to become perpetrators."-- Laurie Greer , Politics & Prose (Washington, D.C.), "Everything you love about Alexie's writing is here: he still manages to find honest human comedy in the darkness of America's genocidal past, and our deeply racist present" and also raves "His personality is large and, as he survives each passing trial, it's only getting larger; from his adoring audience's vantage point, Alexie is now a giant." -- Paul Constant , The Seattle Review of Books, "Honest, wrenching, and incredibly moving....Highly recommended for all readers. Alexie's portrayals of family relationships, identity, and grief have the universality of great literature."-- Library Journal (Starred Review), An Amazon editors' Top 20 books of the year A Washington Post Best Book of the year An LA Times Best Book of of the year An NPR Best Book of the Year Also named a Best Book Of the Year by Library Journal, The Milwaukee Sentinel Journal, Bookpage and The Millions, " You Don't Have to Say You Love Me is a marvel of emotional transparency." -- Beth Kephart , The Chicago Tribune, "If candor is Alexie's superpower, accuracy might be his nemesis.... Throughout, Alexie is courageous and unflinching, delivering a worthy and honest eulogy by showing us his mother and himself in full, everything spectacular and everything scarred."-- Michael Kleber-Diggs , The Minneapolis Star Tribune, "These pages are scored by resentment, hurt, guilt, anger, fear, but they are also full of gratitude, admiration, and tenderness." -- Priscilla Gilman , The Boston Globe, "He specifically focuses on his late mother, showing the many sides of her multifaceted character through dozens of poignant poems and essays. Their relationship is as complicated as Alexie's stories are enthralling."-- Stephanie Topacio Long , Bustle, 14 Best Nonfiction Books Coming Out in June 2017, "There's straight personal history here, as well as fable, poetry, and raw and mordant accounts of life....Unexpected revelations are a constant throughout this memoir"-- Maureen Corrigan , NPR's "Fresh Air", 6 Books That Will Carry You Away, On Reservation Blues : "His talent is immense and genuine.... Sherman Alexie is one of the best writers we have." - The Nation "Hilarious but poignant...dead-on accurate with regard to modern Indian life." -- Publisher's Weekly On Indian Killer : "A haunting, challenging articulation of the plight and the pride of contemporary Native Americans." - Kirkus Reviews , starred review "Characters in Mr. Alexie's work are not the usual kind of Indians...They are not tragic victims or noble savages...they listen to Jimi Hendrix and Hank Williams; they dream of being basketball stars...And unlike most Indians in fiction, they are sometimes funny." - -The New York Times On The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian: "A Native American equivalent of Angela's Ashes ." --- (starred review), Publishers Weekly "Sure to resonate and lift spirits of all ages for years to come." -- USA Today, "[A] poignant, conflicted, raucous memoir of a Native American family...a fine homage to the vexed process of growing up that vividly conveys how family roots continue to bind even after they seem to have been severed."-- Publishers Weekly, "Alexie's writing is raw, funny, smart and unapologetic. His use of metaphor expertly crafts a visual to accompany his stories that leave them unforgettable." -- Catherine Rubino , Book Reporter, On Reservation Blues: "His talent is immense and genuine.... Sherman Alexie is one of the best writers we have." - The Nation "Hilarious but poignant...dead-on accurate with regard to modern Indian life." -- Publisher's Weekly On Indian Killer: "A haunting, challenging articulation of the plight and the pride of contemporary Native Americans." - Kirkus Reviews , starred review "Characters in Mr. Alexie's work are not the usual kind of Indians...They are not tragic victims or noble savages...they listen to Jimi Hendrix and Hank Williams; they dream of being basketball stars...And unlike most Indians in fiction, they are sometimes funny." - -The New York Times On The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian: "A Native American equivalent of Angela's Ashes ." --- (starred review), Publishers Weekly "Sure to resonate and lift spirits of all ages for years to come." -- USA Today, "Written in his familiar breezy, conversational, and aphoristic style, the book makes even the darkest personal experiences uplifting and bearable with the author's wit, sarcasm, and humor...a powerful, brutally honest memoir about a mother and the son who loved her." -- Kirkus Reviews, "With brazen honesty and humor throughout, Alexie writes about the many facets of his mother and her addiction's effect on his family and childhood." -- Jarry Lee , BuzzFeed, "22 Exciting New Books You Need to Read This Summer"
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818/.5403
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23
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