Ceremony

Reading Ceremony, the first couple of pages didn't really interest me. Had I not had to read it for class I would have put it down and I would have missed out on a really interesting book. The story follows Tayo, a veteran of World War II and his dealing with PTSD. He's made reference a couple times so far about being "White Smoke" or being invisible. Things are kind of passing him by as he deals with what happened in the pacific and his dead comrade Rocky. Tayo feels like he is the cause of Rockys death and also the drought where he lives. PTSD has messed with his head and fragmented the realities of what happened and then mixed in some hallucinations on top of that. I know people who have suffered from PTSD from being in the Iraq/Afghanistan war and due to their experiences in combat or from IED's the events can really mess with their heads and it takes some time and therapy to get their minds "unstuck" from it.