You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

This book is simply amazing. Alexie writes about his relationship with his mother, his mother's life, his childhood, living on the reservation, being an adult not living on the reservation, escaping to hight school, his relationship with his siblings, his treatment for a brain tumor -- it's all woven together with prose, and poetry.

It sears. It's laugh out loud funny. It's brilliant. I couldn't put it down.

4.5

This memoir is a masterful combination of prose and poetry that spans Alexie's life as well as his thoughts on society, which of course are intertwined. As a writer he is undeniably talented, but furthermore this is an emotionally charged and often difficult book to read. I'd highly recommend it.

Beautiful. Heartbreaking. Brutal. Best book of the year. So many thoughts and feelings...