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This month’s book: House Made of Dawn by N.Scott Momaday

Information: Fiction, 224 pages, awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1969; 2019 Holbrooke Award Winner

Summary: A young Native American, Abel has come home from a foreign war to find himself caught between two worlds. The first is the world of his father’s, wedding him to the rhythm of the seasons, the harsh beauty of the land, and the ancient rites and traditions of his people. But the other world – modern, industrial America – pulls at Abel, demanding his loyalty, claiming his soul, goading him into a destructive, compulsive cycle of dissipation and disgust. And the young man, torn in two, descends into hell.

Review: “Both a masterpiece about the universal human condition and a masterpiece of Native American literature. . . . A beautiful artistic object, a book everyone should read for the joy and emotion of the language it contains.” —The Paris Review