{"product_id":"almanac-of-the-dead","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.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0140173196\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780140173192\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Silko, Leslie Marmon\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Penguin Books\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Nov 1992)","offer_id":45937554030789,"sku":"9780140173192","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780140173192_c1f71d82-37f2-4e02-9599-7e69e3400f5b.jpg?v=1772880984","url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/products\/almanac-of-the-dead","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}