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A review by mayog
Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
4.0
This book took me forever to get into, because it is not told in a linear fashion. It jumps back and forth between the childhood history of the main character, Tayo, his current reality, his experiences on the Bataang death march, and the stories of the Laguna Pueblo.
Underlying the novel is a decidedly postcolonial recontextualization of the European colonialization of the Americas as a result of witchery intended on destroying all of creation; and the need for ceremonies to make ourselves whole.
Tayo, a biracial Navajo-European man, suffers from PTSD. The entire novel is the ceremony that makes him, and his world, whole again, bringing back the rains from a period of drought.
I would have preferred more forward female characters that were not mythical (presumably). Still, the novel was worth the work.
Underlying the novel is a decidedly postcolonial recontextualization of the European colonialization of the Americas as a result of witchery intended on destroying all of creation; and the need for ceremonies to make ourselves whole.
Tayo, a biracial Navajo-European man, suffers from PTSD. The entire novel is the ceremony that makes him, and his world, whole again, bringing back the rains from a period of drought.
I would have preferred more forward female characters that were not mythical (presumably). Still, the novel was worth the work.