Storyteller

Stories set in the present day explore what it means to be Native American now: the injustices done by white society, the splintering of tribal communities, and the slow erosion of a people's sense of who they are. Woven among them are older tales and legends drawn from Indigenous oral tradition, so the past and present speak to each other throughout.

Leslie Marmon Silko, a writer of Laguna Pueblo heritage, builds the collection around the act of storytelling itself. The pieces move between prose and verse and include photographs, so the book reads as a blend of narrative and family memory rather than a conventional story collection.

Readers drawn to Native American literature, Indigenous storytelling, or fiction about cultural survival will find much to consider here.