Test. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. So pleased to welcome novelist and poet Sherman Alexi back. With more than two dozen published works, hes out with a memoir titled, you dont have to say you love me. Its a collage of essays and poems about his childhood on a spokane indian reservation and complicated relationship with his manager. She with his mother. Happen honor to have you back. Thank you. Im curious as to how you felt when you saw the cover art. When i saw it in broken, fraying photo in the center, and that title, you dont have to say you love me, before i got into this, it hit me. It made me cry the first time i saw the cover art. Its the first draft of the cover art. It was perfect. It made me cry. That is not me on the cover with my mother. That is my big sister with the broken frame and two women who died. My big sister died in a house fire. My mother died in july of 2015 of cancer. Uhhuh. So it is a photo of a mother and daughter,
Test. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. So pleased to welcome novelist and poet Sherman Alexi back. With more than two dozen published works, hes out with a memoir titled, you dont have to say you love me. Its a collage of essays and poems about his childhood on a spokane indian reservation and complicated relationship with his manager. She with his mother. Happen honor to have you back. Thank you. Im curious as to how you felt when you saw the cover art. When i saw it in broken, fraying photo in the center, and that title, you dont have to say you love me, before i got into this, it hit me. It made me cry the first time i saw the cover art. Its the first draft of the cover art. It was perfect. It made me cry. That is not me on the cover with my mother. That is my big sister with the broken frame and two women who died. My big sister died in a house fire. My mother died in july of 2015 of cancer. Uhhuh. So it is a photo of a mother and daughter,