Ceremony
Leslie Marmon Silko • 1977
Devastation Rating
Native American PTSD war healing
Our Take
Tayo returns from World War II broken in ways that Western medicine cannot reach. Silko weaves Laguna Pueblo ceremony through the novel as literal healing — not metaphor but medicine. The land is not backdrop; it is participant. The novel demands you read it at the pace of ceremony.
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