Thank you to Random House Publishing Group for approaching me and putting this memoir on my radar. All opinions expressed in this review are my own.

Dog Flowers is Danielle Geller's memoir. Geller tells her story openly and goes back and forth between the past and the present. The book starts when Danielle Geller’s mother dies of alcohol withdrawal during an attempt to get sober. In an attempt to retrace her mother's life in this memoir, Geller returns to the Navajo reservation where most of her family still lives. The memoir is both a narrative and an archive of one family’s troubled history. The book includes photos and letters from Geller's mother. I was surprised how quickly I flew through the pages. But Geller's writing style invites to continue reading her story. Her story is touching, exploring family, loss and (the absence) of grieve.

I recommend this memoir to everyone who enjoyed Educated by Tara Westover.

CW: substance abuse and abuse