"What I mean by sacred when talking about this book is its singular devotion to knowing and gorgeously describing the lands it depicts; the way this book allows for its people to find new ways to heal from heartache and trauma in a broken and war-torn world. What I mean when I say this book is close to sacred is also to say that it is not sacred and does not intend to be, and that is part of what I first came to love about fiction.

It renders a world, it delivers us with story, gives us what the world is made of in a whole new context, one that exists in communion between writer and reader, reader and page, for the time they exist as one while the story is being told/read."

https://lithub.com/a-rare-sacred-novel-tommy-orange-on-the-genius-of-leslie-marmon-silkos-ceremony

ht @hollygrimm