Dear Reader,
It’s time for a Penguin Classic!
Today you can sample this month's Penguin Classic and enter the drawing to win your own copy. This month's Penguin Classic is, Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko.
Start reading (below) and enter for your chance to win.
(From the Publisher:)
Thirty years since its original publication, Ceremony remains one of the most profound and moving works of Native American literature, a novel that is itself a ceremony of healing. Tayo, a World War II veteran of mixed ancestry, returns to the Laguna Pueblo Reservation. He is deeply scarred by his experience as a prisoner of the Japanese and further wounded by the rejection he encounters from his people. Only by immersing himself in the Indian past can he begin to regain the peace that was taken from him. Masterfully written, filled with the somber majesty of Pueblo myth, Ceremony is a work of enduring power.
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Celebrating 25 years at the book clubs,
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