{"product_id":"almanac-of-the-dead-leslie-marmon-silko-9780140173192","title":"Almanac of the Dead","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"To read this book is to hear the voices of the ancestors and spirits telling us where we came from, who we are, and where we must go.\" --Maxine Hong Kingston\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eFrom critically acclaimed author Leslie Marmon Silko, an epic novel about people caught between two cultures and two times: the modern-day Southwest, and the places of the old ones, the native peoples of the Americas\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In its extraordinary range of character and culture, \u003ci\u003eAlmanac of the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e is fiction on the grand scale, a brilliant, haunting, and tragic novel of ruin and resistance in the Americas. At the heart of this story is Seese, an enigmatic survivor of the fast-money, high-risk world of drug dealing--a world in which the needs of modern America exist in a dangerous balance with Native American traditions. Seese has been drawn back to the Southwest in search of her missing child. In Tuscon, she encounters Lecha, a well-known psychic who is hiding from the consequences of her celebrity. Lecha's larger duty is to transcribe the ancient, painfully preserved notebooks that contain the history of her own people--a Native American Almanac of the Dead. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Through the violent lives of Lecha's extended familiy, a many-layered narrative unfolds to tell the magnificent, tragic, and unforgettable story of the struggle of native peoples in the Americas to keep, at all costs, the core of their culture: their way of seeing, their way of believing, their way of being.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Leslie Marmon Silko\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0140173196\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780140173192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/1992\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 768\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.50w x 1.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/12\/1992","brand":"Leslie Marmon Silko","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44050073485567,"sku":"9780140173192","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ef8429fe-6c25-4740-9a2d-a9126cfd41ad.jpg?v=1685005058","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/almanac-of-the-dead-leslie-marmon-silko-9780140173192","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}