The author, who was promoting memoir You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me, reports that ‘spectacular’ haunting and depression have led him to cancel dates
Sherman Alexie has cancelled a tour promoting his new memoir about his relationship with his late mother, citing depression and his belief that his mother’s ghost has been haunting him since the book was published last month.
In an open letter to his readers, Alexie said that he would be cancelling all his appearances in August and “many, but not all” of his events for the rest of the year. The tour was intended to promote You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me, about his mother Lillian Alexie, a woman the award-winning Native American author describes as “brilliant, funny, beautiful, generous, vindictive, deceitful, tender, manipulative, abusive, loving, and intimidating”, and who died in 2015.
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