Nasdijj's critically acclaimed, award-winning memoir,The Blood Runs Like a River Through My Dreams, took the literary world by storm. "An authentic, important book," ravedEsquire. "Unfailingly honest and very nearly perfect." Now, this celebrated Native American writer has given readers a powerful, brave, and deeply moving memoir of the unconditional love between a father and a son. Eleven-year-old Awee came to live with Nasdijj carrying a brown paper...
Beautifully written, it will challenge your sheltered mind with raw, in-your-face glimpses of our brothers dying on the fringes of our society.
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The book was touching and amazing to me. He is very poetic and so open and willing to write how he feels and what he is thinking. He writes things that most people would never dream to admit that is what they even thought about. Its wonderful. He is so real I love it. I have recommended this book to my friends and they love it as well. I was craving more when I was done with it. It was sensational. I read his other...
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Native American author Nasdijj delivers an unforgettable memoir with The Boy and the Dog Are Sleeping, a chronicle of the death of his adopted son, a 12-year-old Navajo born with AIDS. Nasdijj, whose first son, also adopted, died of fetal alcohol syndrome, is persuaded to adopt Awee by the boy's parents, also AIDS patients. Against his better judgment, Nasdijj agrees. Taking on hopeless boys is something of an addiction with...
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This is one of the most beautiful books I've ever read. I finished it weeks ago and still think about it so often it's haunting. A relative was reading the book and said, "read just the first two pages to get a sense of his writing..." Two days later, I emerged having finished the book--it was one of those books I just couldn't stop. Nasdijj's writing is beautiful--in many ways it seems to be the only kind of writing that...
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Reading this book encouraged me take more risks in loving others, it's cost me more and it's hurt more, but I am also more fully alive as a result.Nasdijj didn't always follow the 'accepted' rules of parenting with Awee and when he writes he doesn't always follow the rules with language. This upsets some people but I think - good for you Nasdijj. You don't get to new territory by traveling over the same ground.Nasdijj was...
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