Sherman Alexie's âYou Don't Have to Say You Love Meâ is listed as a memoir, specifically of his growing up on a Spokane Indian reservation in Washington state, and of his prickly, difficult relationship with his mother.
It is also a pastiche of memories, stories, poems, vignettes, epigrams, rants, observations, and personal history â a crazy quilt book by the son of a woman who kept her family fed, in part, by the fabric quilts she created and sold.
Unconventional in format, bouncing crazily from anger to self-aggrandizement to black humor to brutal honesty, it's a stunning read from a truly unique literary voice.
It is also a pastiche of memories, stories, poems, vignettes, epigrams, rants, observations, and personal history â a crazy quilt book by the son of a woman who kept her family fed, in part, by the fabric quilts she created and sold.
Unconventional in format, bouncing crazily from anger to self-aggrandizement to black humor to brutal honesty, it's a stunning read from a truly unique literary voice.
