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House made of dawn
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Book • 1966
House Made of Dawn follows Abel, a young Jemez Pueblo man who returns to Walatowa, New Mexico, after World War II, haunted by war experiences and unable to reconnect with his roots.
He engages in a brief affair with Angela St. John, kills an albino man he views as a witch, serves prison time, and relocates to Los Angeles where he battles alcoholism, failed relationships, and violence before finding partial redemption through cultural rituals.
The nonlinear narrative explores themes of identity, tradition versus modernity, and the loss of Native heritage in a fragmented, poetic style.
He engages in a brief affair with Angela St. John, kills an albino man he views as a witch, serves prison time, and relocates to Los Angeles where he battles alcoholism, failed relationships, and violence before finding partial redemption through cultural rituals.
The nonlinear narrative explores themes of identity, tradition versus modernity, and the loss of Native heritage in a fragmented, poetic style.
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