Current Reading: You Don't Have To Say You Love Me by Sherman Alexie

 

November is National Native American Heritage month. I decided to read Sherman Alexie's memoir You Don't Have to Say You Love Me for the first book to celebrate Indigenous heritage.

There are three things I liked about this book:

1. It has a good mix of comedy and pathos. One example of the comic. Alexie said he wanted to write a sequel to The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian but he worried that he might write something more like The Phantom Menace rather than The Empire Strikes Back. (The poorly received sequel and the well received sequel, respectively, to Star Wars.) But then Alexie realized that Phantom Menace sold a lot of tickets and, because of his mother's terminal illness, he could use the money.
   
2. It switches between poetry and prose.
3. The chapters are short.