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. 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.