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    The Turquoise Ledge: A Memoir
    The Turquoise Ledge: A Memoir
    The Turquoise Ledge: A Memoir
    Audiobook10 hours

    The Turquoise Ledge: A Memoir

    Written by Leslie Marmon Silko

    Narrated by Alma Cuervo

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    About this audiobook

    Leslie Marmon Silko established herself as "the finest prose writer of her generation" (Larry McMurtry) with her debut novel Ceremony, one of the most acclaimed works of the 20th century. Of mixed Laguna Pueblo, Cherokee, Mexican, and white heritage, Silko brings a unique perspective to her powerful works. In this deeply personal and spiritual book, she combines memoirs, traditional storytelling, and ruminations on the natural world. ".this richly veined, dramatic, and mysterious self-portrait [is] a provocative and numinous memoir."-Booklist, starred review
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateJun 3, 2011
    ISBN9781461804109
    The Turquoise Ledge: A Memoir
    Author

    Leslie Marmon Silko

    Leslie Marmon Silko, a former professor of English and fiction writing, is the author of novels, short stories, essays, poetry, articles, and screenplays. She has won numerous awards and fellowships for her work. She lives in Tucson, Arizona.

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      I really really really love this book. Through this book I've been given a new way to percieve snakes, instead of purely seeing them as venomous and frightening, Leslie describes the snakes that live around her house as individuals, and respects them as such.I'm also enjoying her descriptions of landscape and clouds, the weather having it's own aliveness. Is it pantheism?I'm really getting a strong feeling of her connection to her landscape and the other animals inhabiting it, which I'm missing in my life. I'm getting a lot out of reading these memoirs, and I think I'll probably keep reading it continuously when I've finished it.