Dog Flowers poetry Vanessa Bowen

Vanessa Bowen

it is sure to be a valuable resource for kids

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

In her debut picture book

In that conventional account

Dog Flowers poetry Vanessa BowenA 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