The Boy and the Dog Are Sleeping - Hardcover

Nasdijj

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0345453891 ISBN 13: 9780345453891

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 2003

Synopsis

The author of The Blood Runs Like a River Through My Dreams describes his relationship with his adoptive Navajo son, Awee, a young boy with a legacy of abuse and AIDS, the brutal realities of reservation life, the challenges of dealing with the medical establishment, and his own way of alleviating Awee's suffering.

About this title

About the Author:

Nasdijj was born in the American Southwest in 1950. His grew up partly on the reservation—his mother was Navajo—and partly in migrant camps around the country. He has been writing for more than decades, making ends meet by reporting for small-town papers, teaching, and migrant labor. He is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir, The Blood Runs Like a River Through My Dreams, which was a New York Times Notable Book, a finalist for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award, and winner of the Salon Book Award. “Nasdijj” is Athabaskan for “to become again.” He lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

From the Inside Flap:

Eleven-year-old Awee came to live with Nasdijj, carrying a brown paper bag containing all his belongings, a legacy of abuse, and AIDS. But this beautiful, loving, and intelligent little boy also had enormous hope for his new life. In heartrending prose, Nasdijj writes about their tight-knit, untraditional family―and the precious time they spent together. This searing, poetic memoir will make you cry; yet it is ultimately triumphant, for Awee got what he wanted most in his short life: a real dad.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0345453891
• ISBN 13: 9780345453891
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 324