{"product_id":"ceremony-hardcover","title":"Ceremony - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLeslie Marmon Silko\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eTommy Orange\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTayo, a young Native American, has been a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II, and the horrors of captivity have almost eroded his will to survive. His return to the Laguna Pueblo reservation only increases his feeling of estrangement and alienation. While other returning soldiers find easy refuge in alcohol and senseless violence, Tayo searches for another kind of comfort and resolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTayo's quest leads him back to the Indian past and its traditions, to beliefs about witchcraft and evil, and to the ancient stories of his people. The search itself becomes a ritual, a curative ceremny that defeats the most virulent of afflictions--despair.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeslie Marmon Silko was born in 1948 to a family whose ancestry includes Mexican, Laguna Indian, and European forebears. She has said that her writing has at its core \"the attempt to identify what it is to be a half-breed or mixed-blood person.\" As she grew up on the Laguna Pueblo Reservation, she learned the stories and culture of the Laguna people from her great-grandmother and other female relatives. After receiving her B. A. in English at the University of New Mexico, she enrolled in the University of New Mexico law school but completed only three semesters before deciding that writing and storytelling, not law, were the means by which she could best promote justice. She married John Silko in 1970. Prior to the writing of \u003ci\u003eCeremony\u003c\/i\u003e, she published a series of short stories, including \"The Man to Send Rain Clouds.\" She also authored a volume of poetry, \u003ci\u003eLaguna Woman: Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, for which she received the Pushcart Prize for Poetry. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1973, Silko moved to Ketchikan, Alaska, where she wrote \u003ci\u003eCeremony\u003c\/i\u003e. Initially conceived as a comic story abut a mother's attempts to keep her son, a war veteran, away from alcohol, \u003ci\u003eCeremony\u003c\/i\u003e gradually transformed into an intricate meditation on mental disturbance, despair, and the power of stories and traditional culture as the keys to self-awareness and, eventually, emotional healing. Having battled depression herself while composing her novel, Silko was later to call her book \"a ceremony for staying sane.\" Silko has followed the critical success of \u003ci\u003eCeremony\u003c\/i\u003e with a series of other novels, including \u003ci\u003eStoryteller, Almanac for the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGardens in the Dunes\u003c\/i\u003e. Nevertheless, it was the singular achievement of \u003ci\u003eCeremony\u003c\/i\u003e that first secured her a place among the first rank of Native American novelists. Leslie Marmon Silko now lives on a ranch near Tucson, Arizona. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 12, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44332250923110,"sku":"9780143137191","price":38.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/QqtDz-g6Rd9780143137191.webp?v=1768377061","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/ceremony-hardcover","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}