Status Updates From Almanac of the Dead

"What is it these ghosts want? They are still running away, thinking they are escaping slaughter. They keep traveling, but slower than when they were alive. They are just now reaching Tuscon as the water and the land are disappearing. Relatives already settled here had pleaded with them to flee Sonora sooner. Now the ghosts have come, and they want to know where the lake they were always hearing about has gone."

The rhythm of this book is hard to get into. I’m reading it as part of a group read, and we’ve all struggled. But I’m almost through Mexico, getting ready to head into Africa and beginning to wonder why I ever doubted Silko. This is clearly a work of genius, and I’m seeing how it all connects, slowly.

The description of Lecha finding the victims bodies in the dunes and comparisons to trees and the description of the ocean….holy shit my guy this is so fucking good