The Art of Leslie Marmon Silko

When asked to write a blog post this week on the novel Ceremony  by Leslie Marmon Silko, I am not sure what to write about. Not only have I written several blog posts on this novel already, but so much has happened within the story that it has become much harder too put my thoughts and feelings about this novel into words. Now that my class and I are half-way done with the novel, and the reading has become harder and more confusing with its jumps in time and symbolism I find it hard to write about one thing and only for a few paragraphs. Even so the pure poetic genius of writing writing Silko has create within this story continues to amaze me.
Never have I read a book in which takes such delicate matters such as racism and P.T.S.D. and truly digs into them. Most authors of historical fiction novels are afraid to dig as deeply as Silko has into the truth in these matters, and yet Silko does her digging not only correctly, but in beautiful style, making the writing flow while making the reader think as well. Silko's art is more about pulling at the emotions and at the strings of the human mind then writing a good novel and or that I am grateful. Silko's novel by far has been one the toughest and one of the most wonderful novels I have read within in school and my life. This will be one of the few book that will change my view point on life.