Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

fiction co 1977.  

One of The Atlantic's 2024 Great American novels of the last 100 years

Ceremony follows Tayo, a half-Pueblo, half-white veteran, after his return from World War II, where he was stationed in the Pacific. He returns with P.T.S.D., tormented by the knowledge that the United States government used him and other Native men for its war, giving those lucky enough to survive nothing in return. WII