{"product_id":"almanac-of-the-dead-1","title":"Almanac of the Dead","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eAlmanac of the Dead\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eLeslie Marmon Silko\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780140173192\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003ePenguin Books\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1992\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Thus\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e768\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\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.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Almanac of the Dead | Leslie Marmon Silko | Paperback | 9780140173192 | Used: Very Good | Fiction 1731260 (temp: 2)","offer_id":48167874691224,"sku":"1731260","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/71unUP20JgL_ec380167-26c9-4239-9d9d-0ef39fb2c558.jpg?v=1771957425","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/almanac-of-the-dead-1","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}