A review by christinajcraig
Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

A hauntingly beautiful story, a story of purification and healing. To be read slowly.

"Things which don't shift and grow are dead things. They are things the witchery people want. Witchery works to scare people, to make them fear growth. But it has always been necessary, and more than ever now, it is." (126)

"Yet at that moment in the sunrise, it was all so beautiful, everything, from all directions, evenly, perfectly, balancing day with night, summer months with winter. The valley was enclosing this totality, like the mind holding all thoughts together in a single moment." (237)