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A review by lelia_t
Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
4.0
A powerful book. Not necessarily a pleasure to read - it’s one long pain song, especially in the beginning. But the aliveness of the world made of stories, and Tayo’s effort to find his place in the long story of his people and all people, are deeply moving.
This is a book to sit with for a while. It converses beautifully with two other books I’m reading now - Care of the Soul by Thomas Moore and Hermione Lee’s biography of Virginia Woolf. And there’s a powerful sense of the way time moves in spirals, circles, layers - however you want to describe it - so that it can seem to bend back on itself in timeless presence. Definitely worth reading and rereading.
This is a book to sit with for a while. It converses beautifully with two other books I’m reading now - Care of the Soul by Thomas Moore and Hermione Lee’s biography of Virginia Woolf. And there’s a powerful sense of the way time moves in spirals, circles, layers - however you want to describe it - so that it can seem to bend back on itself in timeless presence. Definitely worth reading and rereading.