![]() ![]() ![]() And she records the effects of weather, rain and heat, on the land itself, in a lovely colorized prose. She writes about the animals she keeps and those she encounters in her almost daily walks, particularly the birds, snakes, and insects. The truth is, I was rather glad when she seemed to get bored with that mission because the memoir shape-shifts into something more of a day-book, and Silko herself becomes a sort of Thoreau of the Southwest. Silkos recounting of family and local history comes in the early chapters. As it turned out, while growing up in the Laguna Pueblo west of Albuquerque, Silko learned a lot of things most of us just dont think much about, and maybe we should, among them the tangled relations of a simple family group, duty to ancestors and gods, and the sacredness of all things living and inert scattered across a bountiful landscape of desert and mountains. I presumed I would find personal recollection and perhaps even some elements revealed out of the writers fascinating but sometimes veiled past. So I suppose I'm biased, but despite the fact that this new book is non-fiction, ostensibly a memoir, I willingly plunged in to "The Turquoise Ledge." Now she's published a memoir called "The Turquoise Ledge." Alan Cheuse has this review.ĪLAN CHEUSE: Its been more than 10 years since Leslie Silkos last novel. Leslie Marmon Silko is the author of the novel "Ceremony," among others. From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. ![]()
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