Ceremony (Contemporary American Fiction Series)
Leslie Marmon Silko's novel follows Tayo, a Laguna Pueblo veteran returning from World War II, through a healing ceremony that braids memory, myth, and the damaged landscape of New Mexico. The book is often taught and frequently annotated. Silko writes with the patience of someone who understands that recovery is not a straight line and that the stories a community tells about itself are as powerful as any medicine.Penguin's Contemporary American Fiction edition presents the novel in the standard format that has carried it through decades of syllabi. It is a serious book that knows the difference between pain and spectacle, and it asks the same discernment from its reader: the willingness to sit with pain long enough to see what shape it takes.
