The Names: A Memoir by N. Scott Momaday
One of my most favorite books, Names is a cutting-edge autobiographical work. Momaday himself characterizes this book "more imaginative than autobiographical." At the age of forty, Momaday takes the reader on a romp of his life—current and ancestral, focused both externally and internally, blurring the line between memory, the imaginary, and the real. Challenging for students, Names gives new meaning to the potentialities of narrative. This is a work that combines personal quest, identity, and the search for one's creative/spiritual source. An obvious choice for those teachers in high school and college who want to give students the keys to the beginning of analytical work with literature. By Natosi, high school/college English instructor.