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Ceremony
by Leslie Marmon Silko
A Pueblo veteran comes home to the land that can heal him.
For you if
you want to understand Indigenous healing traditions as a living practice rather than a historical artifact
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Tayo is a Laguna Pueblo veteran returning from WWII — the Pacific theater, Japanese faces that kept becoming the faces of his uncles, a war the US government needed him to fight but couldn't integrate him into as a full human being on his return. Silko weaves the novel between Tayo's psychological unraveling and the Laguna ceremonial tradition that slowly heals him. The land is not metaphor. The ceremony is not symbol. Both are literal and necessary. The first novel published by a Native American woman and still the most formally complete.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- North America
- Voice
- Written by a North America author
- Themes
- Builders & HealersWitness
