Ceremony follows the same style of writing as Love Medicine as in the chapters kind of jump around. I don't know if it's a Native American style of story telling or coincidence. The jumping to the past and then again to the present took me a couple chapters to get used to but I caught on quite quick and the story flows pretty well in my head.

Leslie did a really good job of letting us get to know Tayo. The war has made a mess of Tayo's head and he keeps reflecting back on the past and sorting through what has happened to him and that has given him a lot of depth as a character. Tayo was an outsider to his peers because his dad was white and that caused distance between, not only the other Natives on the reservation but to his guardian aunt. Tayo's cousin, Rocky, had been his only support for the majority of his life was killed in Japan during World War II and it happened right next to Tayo. Needless to say in addition to Tayo's PTSD he feels responsible for his "brother"s death but is isolated from those around him.