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A very unique and graceful self portrait in one of America's most acclaimed authors. Leslie Marmon Silko's brand-new book, her first in 10 years, includes memoir with genealogy and insights on the animals and beings that order her interest and notify her perspective of the planet, taking viewers along on her daily walks through the arroyos and ledges of the Sonoran desert in Arizona. Silko weaves tales from her family's past into her findings, utilizing the turquoise rocks she discovers about the hikes to combine the lengths of her testimonies, as the beauty and meaning of the scenery around her, and of the snakes, parrots, pets, and other creatures that share her existence and form section of her family, figure prominently in her recollections. Clearly affected by Native-American storytelling practices, The Turquoise Corner becomes a deeply private and moving consideration of the huge religious energy of the natural world-of what these areas and animals may talk to us, and how they're all connected.