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

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

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 wanted a better life for her son, but it was only by leaving her behind that he could hope to achieve it. 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.

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

  • Publication Date: November 12, 2019
  • Genres: Memoir, Nonfiction
  • Paperback: 464 pages
  • Publisher: Back Bay Books
  • ISBN-10: 0316270741
  • ISBN-13: 9780316270748