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You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

A Memoir

Author(s): Alexie, Sherman

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Publisher: Little, Brown and Company

Imprint: Back Bay Books

ISBN: 031627074 or 978031627074

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	A searing, deeply moving memoir about family, lov ...
	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.>hr<Sherman Alexie is one of the most acclaimed and bestselling novelists in America. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, which won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature, was a #1 New York Times bestseller and has more than two million copies in print. Along with the National Book Award, the novel was a 2008 Horn Book Award Winner for Excellence in Children's Literature, a Booksense Book of the Year Children's Literature Honor Book, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist, and one of the New York Times Notable Children's Books of 2007. Alexie has also written eleven books of poetry, three story collections, and three novels for adults: Reservation Blues, Indian Killer, and Flight. >hr—->hr<*An Amazon editors' Top 20 books of the yearA Washington Post* Best Book of the yearAn LA Times Best Book of of the yearAn 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—->hr<"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">hr<"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>hr<"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>hr<"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>hr<"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>hr<"Resonant and occasionally gut-wrenching." —Entertainment Weekly>hr<"Evident throughout are humor and rage, respect and loving irreverence." —Oprah Magazine>hr<"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>hr<"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*>hr<"You Don't Have to Say You Love Me* is a marvel of emotional transparency." —Beth Kephart, *The Chicago Tribune>hr<"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>hr<"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>hr<"He's compulsively readable, a literary writer with the guts of a stand-up comedian." —Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel>hr<"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>hr<"Sardonic, raw and moving...powerful." —Jane Ciabattari, BBC.com>hr<"Tough material, shot through with lyricism, insight and wit."—Mary Ann Gwinn, The Seattle Times>hr<"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>hr<"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>hr<"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>hr<"A master class in memoir."—Sarah Murdoch, Toronto Star*>hr<"Written in his familiar breez

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