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Our TLP Book Club book for April has changed to <u>Dog Flowers: A Memoir</u> by Danielle Geller.</div>
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<blockquote style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><span style="font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600; color: rgb(30, 25, 21); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="ContentPasted0">A daughter returns
home to the Navajo reservation to confront her family's troubled history and retrace her mother's life—using both narrative and archive in this unforgettable and heart-wrenching memoir.</b></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(30, 25, 21); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="ContentPasted0">
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<span style="font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; display: inline !important; color: rgb(30, 25, 21); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="ContentPasted0">After Danielle Geller's mother dies of a withdrawal from alcohol during a period of homelessness,
she is forced to return to Florida. Using her training as a librarian and archivist, Geller collects her mother's documents, diaries, and photographs into a single suitcase and begins on a journey of confronting her family's history and the decisions she's
been forced to make, a journey that will end at her mother's home: the Navajo reservation.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(30, 25, 21); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="ContentPasted0">
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<div><span style="font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; display: inline !important; color: rgb(30, 25, 21); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="ContentPasted0">Geller masterfully intertwines wrenching prose with archival documents to create a deeply
moving narrative of loss and inheritance that pays homage to our pasts, traditions, heritage, the family we are given, and the family we choose.</span><br>
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<div><span><span> </span>-</span>- from goodreads.com</div>
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We will meet Friday, April 28, at 9am. Zoom link will b sent out that week.</div>
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Hope to see you there!<br>
Cassandra</div>
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