With this book, I was a little concerned with the beginning. It took me a while to get into it but when I did, I found this book amazing. For Tayo to go through such a hard time and turn out the way he did was remarkable for a main character. I was a little turned off by the character Helen as was I with the aunt but I ended up seeing the connection in the end.
Everything changes with a war and even today things are changing. Friendships, lifestyles, relationships, and even "home" itself undergoes this. Tayo was thrusted into an unknown world, watched his brother die, and then was expected to come home, have everything normal, and get over the past, non of which could happen immediately. With the help of a medicine man, Tayo goes back to the old ways with nature and finds himself again. This border that he crosses was his saving grace and it also separated himself from his friends. He finds love, heartache, betrayal, and belonging in a short period of time but that was his destiny and it was written in the stars that he saw.
Overall this could become one of my new favorite books and I would reccommend it to anyone. The critic that posted a comment on the back cover was telling the truth when he said, "Ceremony is the greatest novel in Native American literature. It is one of the greatest novels of any time and place....I teach it and I learn from it and I am continually in awe of its power, beauty, rage, vision, and violence"--Sherman Alexie
