Left Handed, a Navajo autobiography vs Listening Woman: Which Should You Read?

Cover of Left Handed, a Navajo autobiography Left Handed, a Navajo autobiography Left Handed · 1900 ★★★★☆ 3.7 378 pages · ≈ 7 h 00 m · Challenging

With a simplicity as disarming as it is frank, Left Handed tells of his birth in the spring "when the cottonwood leaves were about the size of my thumbnail," of family chores such as guarding the sheep near the hogan,…

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Cover of Listening Woman Listening Woman Tony Hillerman · 1978 ★★★★☆ 4.4 336 pages · ≈ 6 h 13 m · Moderate

The blind shaman called Listening Woman speaks of witches and restless spirits, of supernatural evil unleashed. But Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police is sure the monster who savagely slaughtered an old…

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Left Handed, a Navajo autobiographyListening Woman
Goodreads 3.7 (98) —
Hardcover — 3.8 (21)
Google Books — 3.0 (2)
Apple Books — 4.5 (360)

Reception

Left Handed, a Navajo autobiographyListening Woman
Ratings 98 360
Editions 20 11
Citations 4 —
Film adaptations — 1
Wikipedia attention — 1327
Pages 378 336

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