She wanted to eat my heart and be lost in the desert with what she'd done, she wanted to fall on her knees and give birth from it, she wanted to hurt me as only a child can be hurt by its mother.

S. National Book Award for Fiction. Biography
Johnson was born in 1949 in Munich West Germany.

National Book Award for Fiction. Denis Hale Johnson (born 1949) is an American author who is known for his short-story collection Jesus' Son (1992) and his novel Tree of Smoke (2007) which won the U. He also writes plays poetry and non-fiction.