![]() ![]() The novel rests in numerous locations where the girls live and must adapt, but their spiritual home and the place they always wish to return to, the place where their Sand Lizard people come from is the gardens, inland from the river, where there is natural spring and if enough rain, plentiful opportunity to grow what they need to survive. As Ceremony was the coing of age of a young man and set over a shorter period of time, Garden in the Dunes is more of a historical novel, set in the late 1800's, following the lives of two native American sisters, Indigo and Sister Salt and at various times, their Grandmother and the white woman Hattie who provides refuge for Indigo for a period of time after she escapes a boarding school she has been virtually imprisoned in. 2019 is becoming my year of reading Silko, this now is the second novel I've read after Ceremony and I loved it as much, in some ways perhaps more, given the journey it takes the reader on. ![]()
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