Almanac of the Dead Questions and Answers
by Leslie Marmon Silko

Lecha and Zeta in this novel are two twin sisters, who have been selected by the spirits to fulfil specific roles in the struggle to reclaim the land. They are both meant to be mother figures for...

Angelita La Escapia is in many ways everything that the Cuban revolutionary leader Bartolomeo is not. She therefore serves as his ideological contrast, even though both revolutionaries wish to see...

Menardo has risen to the top of the corporate ladder, becoming president of the Universal Insurance company. His meteoric rise has been accompanied by a gradual abandonment of his indigenous...

Sterling is a Native American who, like many other characters in the book, has left his indigenous heritage behind and submerged himself in white culture. An older Indian from the Laguna tribe,...

Seese is a young white woman living in San Diego. A drug addict, she's entered into a relationship with a bisexual man called David. They have a child together, Monte, who is later stolen, believed...