You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
by Sherman Alexie
2017
Weight:2 lbs
Method of Disposal: Lending Library
Sherman Alexie is another one of those authors that I love and trust enough to just buy anything he publishes whenever I come across it. I was introduced to him by an Agnes Scott professor named Dr. Guthrie, and I have been fascinated by him ever since. I was out with my mom and Harriet recently when I found this one on the New Arrivals table at Barnes and Noble. I did not have the $22.40 + tax to spare, but I could not talk myself out of it. I am not suppose to be getting more books. I am suppose to be letting go of all the books. My wife will tell you that I am not doing a good job and that they are still stacked up high all around the basement.
I am glad I did not talk myself out of buying it. I am almost reluctant to let it go, but I want someone else to enjoy it, and I know I will not have time to re-read it anytime soon. It is a beautiful book about grieving, identity, parents, family, Sherman, loss, gains, race, genocide, power, weakness...it is about Sherman and his mother and his sisters and his father and his mother's rapist and his sister's rapist and his wife and his friend...Shall I go on? It is a mix of fiction interwoven with nonfiction. Poems with stories with powwow chants.
It is well worth a read. Enjoy it!
by Sherman Alexie
2017
Weight:2 lbs
Method of Disposal: Lending Library
Sherman Alexie is another one of those authors that I love and trust enough to just buy anything he publishes whenever I come across it. I was introduced to him by an Agnes Scott professor named Dr. Guthrie, and I have been fascinated by him ever since. I was out with my mom and Harriet recently when I found this one on the New Arrivals table at Barnes and Noble. I did not have the $22.40 + tax to spare, but I could not talk myself out of it. I am not suppose to be getting more books. I am suppose to be letting go of all the books. My wife will tell you that I am not doing a good job and that they are still stacked up high all around the basement.
I am glad I did not talk myself out of buying it. I am almost reluctant to let it go, but I want someone else to enjoy it, and I know I will not have time to re-read it anytime soon. It is a beautiful book about grieving, identity, parents, family, Sherman, loss, gains, race, genocide, power, weakness...it is about Sherman and his mother and his sisters and his father and his mother's rapist and his sister's rapist and his wife and his friend...Shall I go on? It is a mix of fiction interwoven with nonfiction. Poems with stories with powwow chants.
It is well worth a read. Enjoy it!
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