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Description:

Tayo is a half-white Laguna Indian emotionally stricken by white warfare and almost destroyed by his experiences as a World War II prisoner of the Japanese. Unable to find a place among Native American veterans who are losing themselves in rage and drunkenness, Tayo discovers his connection to the land and to ancient rituals with the help of a medicine man, and comes to understand the need to create ceremonies, to grow and change, in order to survive. More... (Amazon.com)

Booknotes about Ceremony:

• Gale Group - for teachers who are subscribed to the Gale Group online service there is an excellent overview of the Ceremony on their "DISCovering Authors" database. Go to Gale Group > Discovering Collection > Literature Search > Title Search. Type in 'Ceremony' and the booknotes will appear. There are also essays and biographies of the author.
  
  Source Citation: "Ceremony," in Novels for Students, Vol. 4, Gale Research, 1998. DISCovering Authors. Gale Group, 1999. Reproduced in Discovering Collection. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale Group. December, 2000. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/DC/

Other websites about Ceremony

• Another essay about Ceremony
  http://www.wdog.com/rider/writings/silko.htm
  
  
• Leslie Marmon Silko - biography and brief summary of the book
  http://www.cc.emory.edu/ENGLISH/Bahri/Silko.html
  
  
• American Paradoxes in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony- student essay
  http://www.georgetown.edu/bassr/218/projects/vianes/ceremony.vianes.htm
  
  
• Notes on Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko - from university English course
  http://cla.calpoly.edu/~smarx/courses/346/Silko/Ceremon.html