Almanac of the Dead

In its extraordinary range of character and culture, Almanac of the Dead is fiction on the grand scale. The acclaimed author of Ceremony, Leslie Marmon Silko has undertaken a weaving of ideas and lives, fate and history, passion and conquest in an attempt to re-create the moral history of the Americas, told from the point of view of the conquered, not the conquerors. Civilizations clash when Seese, a survivor of the fast-money, high-risk world of drug dealing, travels to the Southwest in search of her missing child and meets Lecha, a celebrity psychic who is working to transcribe the notebooks that contain the history of her Native American people.