| Florence Crannell Means, who has hada life-long interest in the Indians of fileSouthwest, has written a novel fo~O Her story concerns the tragic di- ilemma of Sarah, a young Hopi womafi;~!who finds herself trapped between andexcluded by the two cultures she wasborn to. After a nine-year stay with a middle-class white family, Sarah returns to herHopi village. She is hopeful that she cannow leave behind her "Bohanna," whiteman s ways and adopt the life of her an-cestors. But her hopes receive one defeatafter another. She finds she cannot acceptthe villagers ancient religion and waysof living any better than they can accepther eccentricities. When she is raped bya Hopi boy and bears his illegitimatechild, the tragic outlines of Sarah s lifeseem so solidified. OuR Cue Is BnOKEN is a fast-movingdramatic story- and often a bitter one.The forces of Sarah s fate are realisticand there are no ,,,~-x mswers nor fairy-tale endings. But S,t,.,i?s story should betold for the underst,nding it brings tothe often deplorabl,: consequences ofcultural separation. |
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