Ceremony Free Audiobook Download by Leslie Marmon Silko

Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony is a beautifully written novel about the many different people and cultures in contemporary Native American society.

Ceremony, written by Leslie Marmon Silko, is a young adult novel about a girl, Tayo, who goes to live with her grandmother on an Indian Reservation in order to learn the customs and traditions of her tribe.

The audiobook download of Leslie Marmon Silko's 'Ceremony' is narrated by Peter Bradbury. The audiobook was written by Silko, who is a Native American author, and the story tells of her father (Sando) and how he raises his daughter Ahniko after he kills another man in self-defense.

Ceremony, a short story by Leslie Marmon Silko, is narrated by Peter Bradbury. He reads the story in Ojibwe and Spanish. The story follows two friends who are childhood friends and remain so even as they grow up and get married, but their relationship reaches its peak when one of them dies from leukemia. At the end of the story, he reflects on how Central Plains Indians view life after death and how ceremonies teach them about what happens to the body after it dies and it returns to Mother Earth.

Ceremony is a rich and complex novel, set in the deep American desert. Its protagonist, Tayo, is a young Laguna Pueblo man who has left his village to travel north to find work for another community where he will be employed as a foreman. The novel follows his travels across the United States and back through the southern border of Mexico. We follow him as he deals with racism and sexism, struggles with alcoholism and poverty, and explores how his religious beliefs are formed and change over time.

Leslie Marmon Silko's novel Ceremony is a poetic and haunting exploration of the land and people of the American Southwest. This book is one of Silko's best works, encompassing all her themes--violence, colonialism, landscape, memory, art and culture--in a moving narrative that speaks to many different audiences.