Leslie Marmon Silko

Almanac of the Dead is a novel by Leslie Marmon Silko, first published in 1991.

Thirty years since its original publication, Ceremony remains one of the most profound and moving works of Native American literature, a novel that is itself a ceremony of healing. Tayo, a World War II veteran of mixed ancestry, returns to the Laguna Pueblo Reservation. He is deeply scarred by his experience as a …