Dog Flowers poetry and transformation into an award-winning

and transformation into an award-winning poet and musician is haunting

In that conventional account

Huitzilopochtli

deep in the creases and folds of the everday

a World War II veteran of mixed ancestry

Dog Flowers poetry and transformation into an award-winningA daughter returns home to the Navajo reservation to retrace her mother's life in a memoir that is both a narrative and an archive of one family's troubled history. "Dog Flowers pulls the few remaining threads of an unraveled family life. This courageous, honest, desperate, tender, and compelling book tells a daughter's story of her troubled mother. In Dog Flowers, we learn that a handful of threads can never reweave the blanket of family, or patch up