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The Turquoise Ledge: A Memoir
Leslie Marmon Silko
Silko's memoir of walking the desert near her Tucson home — rattlesnakes, rain clouds, turquoise stones, and the Laguna Pueblo worldview that infuses everything she sees.
desert
Indigenous knowledge
Memoir
American Southwest
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Publisher
Penguin
Published
2011
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