Silko has followed the critical success of Ceremony with a series of other novels, including Storyteller, Almanac for the Dead, and Gardens in the Dunes. In 1973, Silko moved to Ketchikan, Alaska, where she wrote Ceremony. She also authored a volume of poetry, Laguna Woman: Poems, for which she received the Pushcart Prize for Poetry. Prior to the writing of Ceremony, she published a series of short stories, including The Man to Send Rain Clouds. in English at the University of New Mexico, she enrolled in the University of New Mexico law school but completed only three semesters before deciding that writing and storytelling, not law, were the means by which she could best promote justice. As she grew up on the Laguna Pueblo Reservation, she learned the stories and culture of the Laguna people from her great-grandmother and other female relatives. Leslie Marmon Silko was born in 1948 to a family whose ancestry includes Mexican, Laguna Indian, and European forebears. It is one of the greatest novels of any time and place' Sherman Alexie Read more Look Inside Details : Ceremony (9780451127235) by Silko, Leslie Marmon and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great. ' Ceremony is the greatest novel in Native American literature.

Only by rediscovering the traditions, stories and ceremonies of his ancestors can he start to heal, and find peace.

But, returning to the Laguna Pueblo Reservation, he finds himself scarred by his experiences as a prisoner of war, and further wounded by the rejection he finds among his own people. Tayo, a young Second World War veteran of mixed ancestry, is coming home. 'The most accomplished Native American writer of her generation' The New York Times Book Review

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