Whiskey tender : a memoir
(2024)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
MEMOIR/TAFFA,D
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024]
©2024
©2024
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
x, 293 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780063288515, 0063288516 :, 0063288516, 9780063288515
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Animas -- Almost Yuman -- The Price is Right -- Not your Indian outlaw -- The phantom limb -- Bicentennial girl -- Crowned -- First funeral -- Pancake alley -- Boarding school -- Hall of mirrors -- Lab work -- All saints -- Pocahottie -- The woman who was a mirage -- The ghost dance -- Flight
"Whiskey Tender is a memoir of family and survival, coming-of-age on and off the reservation, and the frictions between being raised to strive towards the American dream while also coming into an understanding of how the narratives of the Quechan Nation and Laguna Pueblo heritages have been excluded from the central mythologies and structures of America"--