Gardens in the Dunes: A Novel

Title: Gardens in the Dunes: A Novel
Author: Leslie Marmon Silko
First Edition
Condition: As New
Pages: 479
Hardcover
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The acclaimed author of Almanac of the Dead gives us a smoldering story of an Indian girl orphaned by an act of white brutality and adopted by a proper Victorian family. The girl, named Indigo, is ripped from her tribe, the Sand Lizard people, by white soldiers who destroy her home and family. Placed in a government school to learn the ways of a white child, Indigo is rescued by the kind-hearted Hattie and her worldly husband, Edward, who undertake to transform this complex, spirited girl into a ''proper'' young lady. Bit by bit, and through a wondrous journey that spans the European continent, traipses through the jungles of Brazil, and returns to the rich desert of Southwest America, Indigo bridges the gap between the two forces in her life and teaches her adoptive parents as much as, if not more than, she learns from them.