Do you like it?
Boy, I want, want, want whatchu want, want, want
Give it to me, baby, like boom, boom, boom
What I want, want, want is what you want, want, want
Nah, nah-ah

Published as non-fiction, each memoir recounted purported aspects of the author’s life. The memoirs referred to his Navajo heritage, his self-destructive and abusive parents (a white father and Navajo mother), his unhappy childhood as a migrant worker, his dysfunctional relationships with other family members, and his growing up to become a nurturing father. As an adult, he adopted two children: one with fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) and a second who was HIV-positive. In the books, the children are unprotected; the author attacks white society for their plight.[2] One academic study describes the world of the novels as one “in which almost everyone encountered is damaged, brutalized, crippled from beatings, or fatally diseased, and in which mining and other forms of exploitation have permanently crippled the land.”[12]