Gardens in the Dunes, Leslie Marmon Silko, 1999.
TTR: Two weeks, give or take. This is a fairly long book.
Comments:
Honestly, Gardens in the Dunes is probably my least favorite Silko novel. I think it is because of what Silko was trying to do with the novel, which is to step away from angry political writing in a sense. I'm a huge Ceremony fan, and I also love her poetry. But this book, while in many ways still intriguing, didn't feel all there for me. Mostly it was the ending, which I really disliked.
What did I love about the novel? The constant references to gardening across the globe, which I read as a sort of alternative globalization. I also loved the references to the Female Spiritual Principle and Hattie's very Victorian mannerisms.
My favorite character is Indigo, despite the fact that she is rather problematically idealized throughout the text, and her animal friends: Linnaeus, the monkey, and Rainbow, the parrot.
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