Almanac of the DeadBy: Leslie Marmon Silko To read this book is to hear the voices of the ancestors and spirits telling us where we came from, who we are, and where we must go. Maxine Hong Kingston From critically acclaimed author Leslie Marmon Silko, an epic novel about people caught between two cultures and two times: the modern day Southwest, and the places of the old ones, the native peoples of the Americas In its extraordinary range of character and culture,