You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

Sherman Alexie's memoir—an unsparing, grief-torn, angry, and admiring portrait of his late mother that is equally unsparing toward himself—seems like one of the must-read books of the year, especially for fellow Seattleites who have been following his career for decades. And I highly recommend that if you do read it (you should!), you do so by listening: Alexie is one of our great raconteurs no matter what he's reading, but this book in particular feels like the full-throated cry of a survivor, circling around the cruelties, the poverty, and the love of his childhood in prose and poetry whose blunt anguish and repeated incantations find their true medium when spoken aloud. —Tom
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