In Tuscon, she encounters Lecha, a well-known psychic who is hiding from the consequences of her celebrity. Seese has been drawn back to the Southwest in search of her missing child. 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. In its extraordinary range of character and culture, Almanac of the Dead is fiction on the grand scale, a brilliant, haunting, and tragic novel of ruin and resistance in the Americas. "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 Kingstonįrom 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
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