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Ceremony

by Leslie Marmon Silko

"A Laguna Pueblo veteran comes home from war — healing lies in the old stories."

Tayo returns from the Second World War shattered, caught between the trauma of the Pacific and a drought-struck reservation. Only ceremony — story, land, ritual — offers a way back to wholeness. A landmark of Native American literature.

Worth knowing

A foundational text of the Native American Renaissance, never out of print since 1977.

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