| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
260 pages : facsimiles, photographs ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Creator -- Part I. And boy it just burns me up ; It was my fault but also -- Part II. Another likely story ; Little bit ; Because I'm not that kind of bitch ; [Apocalypse] ; [Pretty little thing] ; I would still now want him with me so I can take care of him ; Nobody is ever -- Part III. I woke up with a dream about me & mom & dad & Christmas and how the light of God pulling me into the life that is now teaching what I have to do ; Them supposable being ; [Exhaustion] ; The art of living dangerously ; Knowing it was just another one of his lies -- Part IV. I love them so! ; [Little sheep] ; [Beauty] ; [Nursing home ] ; [I tried to say] ; [Little tweets] ; [Solitary] ; Still cruising ; [Cat killer] ; [Dumpster] ; [Correspondence] ; [Changing woman] ; [Selvage]. |
| Summary |
When Danielle Geller's mother dies of alcohol withdrawal during an attempt to get sober, Geller returns to Florida and finds her mother's life packed into eight suitcases. Most are filled with clothes, except the last one, which contains diaries, photos, and letters, a few undeveloped disposal cameras, dried sage, jewelry, and the bandana her mother wore on days she skipped a hair wash. Geller, an archivist and a writer, uses these pieces of her mother's life to try to understand her mother's relationship to home, and their shared need to leave it. Geller embarks on a journey to confront her family's history and the decisions she herself was forced to make while growing up, a journey that will end at her mother's home: the Navajo reservation. Dog Flowers is an arresting photo-lingual memoir that masterfully weaves together images and text to examine mothers and mothering, sisters and caretaking, and colonized bodies. Exploring loss and inheritance, beauty and balance, Danielle Geller pays homage to our pasts, traditions, heritage, to the families we are given and the families we choose. |
| Subject |
Geller, Danielle -- Family.
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| Subject(S) |
Navajo Indians -- Biography.
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Mothers and daughters -- Biography.
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Autobiographies.
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| ISBN |
9781984820396 (hardcover) |
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1984820397 (hardcover) |
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