Memoirs & Coffee Book Group to Discuss "You Don't Have To Say You

Bernardsville Library’s book group, Memoirs and Coffee, will meet on Tuesday, May 22 at 10:30 am to discuss "You Don't Have To Say You Love Me" (2017) by Sherman Alexie.

It is a searing, deeply moving memoir about family, love, loss and forgiveness from the critically acclaimed, bestselling, National Book Award-winning author. When his mother passed away at the age of 78, Alexie responded the only way he knew how: he wrote. The result is this stunning memoir. Featuring 78 poems, 78 essays and intimate family photographs, Alexie shares raw, angry, funny, profane, tender memories of a childhood few can imagine--growing up dirt-poor on an Indian reservation, one of four children raised by alcoholic parents. Throughout, a portrait emerges of his mother as a beautiful, mercurial, abusive, intelligent, complicated woman. "You Don't Have To Say You Love Me" is a powerful account of a complicated relationship, an unflinching and unforgettable remembrance.

Alexie is also the recipient of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the PEN/Malamud Award for Short Fiction, and a PEN/Hemingway Citation for Best First Fiction. A Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian, he grew up in Wellpinit, Washington, on the Spokane Indian Reservation. He now lives in Seattle.

No registration is needed to come to this free library book discussion. Please call Bernardsville Library at 766-0118 for more information.