TY - BOOK AU - Geller,Danielle TI - Dog flowers: a memoir SN - 9781984820396 AV - E99.N3 G455 2021 PY - 2021///] CY - New York PB - One World, an imprint of Random House KW - Geller, Danielle KW - Navajo Indians KW - Biography KW - Mothers and daughters KW - Autobiographies KW - lcgft N1 - 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] N2 - "After Danielle Geller's mother dies of a vicious withdrawal from drugs while homelessness, she is forced to return to Florida. Using her training as a librarian and archivist, Geller collects her mother's documents, diaries, and photographs into a single suitcase and begins on a journey of confronting her family, her harrowing past, and the decisions she's been forced to make, a journey that will end at her mother's home--the Navajo reservation. Geller masterfully intertwines wrenching prose with archival documents to create a deeply moving narrative of loss and inheritance that pays homage to our pasts, traditions, heritage, and the family we are given, and the ones we choose"-- ER -