Literary memoir
The Lummi Tabernacle Choir
A Memoir of Belonging
On Gooseberry Point, whenever a siren wailed down the road, every dog in the neighborhood lifted its head and answered. They were the Lummi Tabernacle Choir, and for ten years they were the soundtrack to Jon Gergen's life on the Lummi Reservation.
He found himself in the company of Ben, Wayne, Joe, Hungarian Mike, a man everyone knew only as Spider-Man, and Skip — fishermen, drifters, and the closest thing he had to fathers. And there was Arlo, a dog as fiercely independent as any of them.
The Lummi Tabernacle Choir is a book about an accidental community, the strange grace of being taken in, and the harder question of whether you can stay somewhere that has already accepted you.