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Crazy Brave

memoir by Harjo
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Crazy Brave is a memoir by Joy Harjo, the first Native American U.S. poet laureate. The book explores her difficult childhood marked by her father's alcoholism and abuse, and her journey toward finding her voice as an artist and writer. Harjo, an enrolled member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, discusses her education at the Institute of American Indian Arts and the University of New Mexico, where she transitioned from medicine to art and then to creative writing. The memoir delves into themes of Native American identity, resilience, and the transformative power of art and music, particularly jazz, in overcoming adversity.12

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