Description: "Demanding but confident and beautifully written" (Boston Globe), this is the story of a young Native American returning to his reservation after surviving the horrors of captivity as a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II.
Review Quotes: Praise for Ceremony
"An exceptional novel--a cause for celebration." --The Washington Post Book World "Her assurance, her gravity, her flexibility are all wonderful gifts." --The New York Review of Books "The novel is very deliberately a ceremony in itself--demanding but confident and beautifully written." --The Boston Globe "Ceremony is the greatest novel in Native American literature. It is one of the greatest novels of any time and place. I have read this book so many times that I probably have it memorized. I teach it and I learn from it and I am continually in awe of its power, beauty, rage, vision, and violence." --Sherman Alexie"Without question Leslie Marmon Silko is the most accomplished Native American writer of her generation." --The New York Times Book Review