At the very least, it is worthwhile for being criticism that is pleasurable to read. By offering itself simultaneously as a primer for scholars and readers new to Silko, and an example of engaging narrative criticism, the collection ought to prove useful to a diverse readership. Moore’s opening essay, “‘Linked to the Land’: An Introduction to Reading Leslie Marmon Silko,” sets forth not only a personal and historical context for readers newly arrived to Silko studies but also a thematic cluster of witness, testimony, and space around which the other essays revolve. Read together, Moore’s essays form a narrative and critical through line, and in this way, the collection’s form reflects its subject: Silko’s novels, which tend to foreground narrative shape. Assembling nine essays- three for each of Silko’s three novels-the collection is bound together by four short commentaries from Moore: three prefaces, one for each section, and a longer introduction to the collection itself. Moore, stands out as a useful companion to Silko’s three novels and an example of an editor’s role in giving a collection shape. Published by Bloomsbury in 2016, Leslie Marmon Silko: Ceremony, Almanac of the Dead, Gardens in the Dunes, edited by David L.
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