"It is a search and a celebration, a book of identities and sources....Out of ordinary materials–genealogy, tribal tales, memories of a boyhood spent in Oklahoma, at Ship Rock in the Navajo country and at the Jemez pueblo, where his parents taught school–he has built a mystical, provocative book." –Wallace Stegner,
New York Times "A Native American version of
Roots . . . full of the sense of wonder that characterizes classic American literature." –
Choice "Graceful, lucid prose...[Momaday] is forever an Indian and the reader understands why." –
Atlantic Monthly "With the eye of a painter and the voice of a poet, Momaday vividly recreates a childhood world of color, sound, and experience played out against the backdrop of tribal tales and in the shadow of revered forebears. . . . An eloquent statement of this distinguished Native American author's search for identity." –
Journal of Arizona History
