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Sacred Clowns (Leaphorn & Chee, #11)
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My admiration for Hillerman just grows and grows.
I'm a passionate reader of mysteries. Whenever there is a "back story" I read from the beginning.
Sacred Clowns is Hillerman's 7th and I'm struck by how the quality of his writing, the quality of his plot development and resolution and his ability to seamlessly weave a lesson in Indian philosophy and daily life into the story without making this non-fiction attempting to be fiction - well, his growth was noteworthy.
About this book, in particular, if you read it note that the Tano Pueblo was an invention. This is important to keep in mind if you are lapping up (as I do) all of Hillerman's anthropological knowledge in his books. Nevertheless, there is much learning of Navajo and Pueblo culture here.
And, do not read this without reading his other books, IN ORDER, or the impact of the back-story events here will be greatly diminished.
I'm a passionate reader of mysteries. Whenever there is a "back story" I read from the beginning.
Sacred Clowns is Hillerman's 7th and I'm struck by how the quality of his writing, the quality of his plot development and resolution and his ability to seamlessly weave a lesson in Indian philosophy and daily life into the story without making this non-fiction attempting to be fiction - well, his growth was noteworthy.
About this book, in particular, if you read it note that the Tano Pueblo was an invention. This is important to keep in mind if you are lapping up (as I do) all of Hillerman's anthropological knowledge in his books. Nevertheless, there is much learning of Navajo and Pueblo culture here.
And, do not read this without reading his other books, IN ORDER, or the impact of the back-story events here will be greatly diminished.
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Started Reading
July 4, 2013
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Finished Reading
July 6, 2013
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