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One Book/One Community Series: "Whiskey Tender", by Deborah Jackson Taffa
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"Whiskey Tender traces how a mixed tribe native girl—born on the California Yuma reservation and raised in Navajo territory in New Mexico—comes to her own interpretation of identity, despite her parent’s desires for her to transcend the class and “Indian” status of her birth through education, and despite the Quechan tribe’s particular traditions and beliefs regarding oral and recorded histories...
Taffa offers a sharp and thought-provoking analysis of Indigenous history laced with humor and heart. As she reflects on her past and present—the promise of assimilation and the many betrayals her family has suffered, both personal and historical; trauma passed down through generations—she reminds us of how the cultural narratives of her ancestors have been excluded from the central mythologies and structures of the “melting pot” of America, revealing all that is sacrificed for the promise of acceptance."
-Harper Collins Publishers
About the Author:
Award-winning memoirist, Deborah Jackson Taffa, is the author of Whiskey Tender, a finalist for the 2024 National Book Award. Named a top book of 2024 by The Atlantic, Time Magazine, Oprah Daily, Audible, and Publisher's Weekly, the memoir won both a Southwest Book Prize and an International Latino Book Award. Taffa is a 2024 NEA Fellow, a 2022 winner of the PEN Jean Stein Grant. She is a citizen of the Kwatsaan Nation and Laguna Pueblo and director of the MFA CW at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, NM. She recently won the Howard Foundation Award from Brown University for her novel-in-progress, All the Bones Have Fallen.
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