Danielle Geller
Author
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"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....
Author
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When Danielle Geller's mother dies of alcohol withdrawal during an attempt to get sober, Geller returns to Florida and finds her mother's life packed into eight suitcases. Most are filled with clothes, except for the last one, which contains diaries, photos, letters, and a few undeveloped disposabal cameras. Geller, an archivist and a writer, uses these pieces of her mother's life to challenge her family's collective memory. Geller embarks on a journey...