But most importantly, this is a pivotal work of Native-American literature. Ceremony is also a really important book in American literature, and teaches us a lot about interstitial identities in American culture her protagonist, Tayo, is a mixed-race Native and white man who feels ostracized from both sides of his identity. It is an important book to me: so important that I included a chapter about it in my dissertation, and I’m refining that work for a book project. I continually return to it, or rather it draws me back. When I first read it almost a decade ago, the book hit me like a lightning bolt to the forehead, and it stayed with me. Ceremony may be an apt example of Postmodern innovation, but it also stands out to me as a masterpiece by an artist who is attuned to the invisible dimensions of reality, and I think Silko’s formal developments are designed to reflect this extraordinary perception.
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