"A memoir of [Momaday's] boyhood in Oklahoma and the Southwest, [this] is also described by Momaday as an act of the imagination. 'When I turn my mind to my early life, it is the imaginative part of it that comes first and irresistibly into reach, and of that part I take hold.' Complete with family photos, The Names is a book that will [enlighten] readers who wish to experience the Native American way of life"--Publisher marketing.
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