Leslie Marmon Silko
Ceremony
New York: Viking Press, 1977.
Silko employs the finely honed craft of storytelling to relate the
quest of Tayo, an Indian veteran of WWII and an ex-P.O.W., for
meaning and substance in a life he's not certain he wants to
survive. His veteran friends have turned to drinking and to
violence as a way of dealing with the horrors of their lives.
Mindful that there must be another way to cure his soul-sickness,
he eventually comes back to the traditions and ceremonies of his
people, where he can finally find some peace.
