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DESCRIPTION:The Turquoise Ledge is a refreshingly original self-portrait by the 
 novelist deemed by Larry McMurtry, "the finest prose writer of her 
 generation." For her first work of non-fiction, Silko has put together a 
 beautiful series of observations from her daily walks through the Sonoran 
 desert outside of Tucson, where she lives, personal revelations, and such 
 compelling stories of the creatures sharing the landscape with her that 
 writer Joy Williams calls The Turquoise Ledge "a classic of desert 
 writing."  She adds, "In these end times when humankind's disrespect for 
 the earth has reached murderous depths of true mental illness, Silk's 
 fresh, vivid... correspondence with beings so refreshingly not-us is as 
 restorative as desert rain. She blesses us..."\n\nThis is a deeply personal 
 contemplation of the enormous spiritual power of the natural world. 
 \n\nLeslie Marmon Silko has a mix of Laguna Pueblo, Mexican, and White 
 ancestry. She grew up at the Pueblo of Laguna in New Mexico, and considers 
 herself Laguna. While at the University of New Mexico Silko had published a 
 short story, "The Man to Send Rain Clouds", which was awarded the National 
 Endowment for the Humanities Discovery Grant. In 1974 she published Laguna 
 Woman, a book of poems. In 1978 her novel Ceremony, described by Sherman 
 Alexie as "the greatest novel in Native American literature" appeared, and 
 subsequently sold over a million copies in paperback.   Other works by 
 Silko are Storyteller, Almanac of the Dead, and Yellow Woman and the Beauty 
 of Spirit.  \n\nhosted by Lakota Harden and Gregg McVicar\nof KPFA Radio's 
 Bay Native Circle\n\n$10 advance tickets: 
 http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/125499\nt: 800-838-3006 or: Pegasus 
 Books, Pendragon, Mrs. Dalloway's, Moe's, Walden Pond, DIESEL, A Bookstore, 
 and Modern Times  ($12 door)\nInformation: www.kpfa.org/events    KPFA 
 Radio benefit\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/09/23/18659649.php
SUMMARY:Leslie Marmon Silko: The Turquoise Ledge
LOCATION:St. Paul's Episcopal Church\n114 Montecito Avenue\nOakland, CA 
 94610\n510-834-4314\nhttp://www.stpaulsoakland.org
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/09/23/18659649.php
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