The sorrow of archaeology: a novel
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University of New Mexico Press
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2005
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English
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One hot Colorado afternoon, physician-turned-archaeologist Sarah MacLeish unearths the skeleton of an Ancestral Puebloan girl with a deformed leg. Her efforts to understand something of the long-ago life of that girl confront her with the flaws in her own body and her marriage. Sarah struggles with multiple sclerosis, and she is increasingly persuaded that her husband, archaeologist Harry MacLeish, is profoundly discontented in their childless marriage. Sarah must contend, too, with the question of where she comes from, what her pioneer heritage truly means to her, how she can live up to the values of her grandmother-whose long life is drawing to its inevitable close-and whether she has both the power and the will to shape the days that remains to her. Employing archeology as both subject and metaphor, The Sorrow of Archaeology is a provocative and always lyrical novel whose characters grapple with the deepest human questions: How can we know who we really are? What is best for us? How do we construct satisfying narratives of our own lives out of the broken materials fate hands us? Set near Mesa Verde in southwestern Colorado, where the author grew up and lived for many years, it is a novel rich with emotional, medical, archaeological, and cultural truths.
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Antiquities
Archaeologists
Archaeologists' spouses
Archaeologists' spouses -- Fiction
Archaeologists -- Fiction
Colorado -- Fiction
Divorce
Divorce -- Fiction
Electronic books
Excavations (Archaeology)
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Fiction
Fiction
Marriage
Marriage -- Fiction
Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.) -- Fiction
Multiple sclerosis
Multiple sclerosis -- Patients -- Fiction
Nature
Nature -- Fiction
Patients
Psychological fiction
Pueblo Indians
Pueblo Indians -- Antiquities -- Fiction
Women physicians
Women physicians -- Fiction
Archaeologists
Archaeologists' spouses
Archaeologists' spouses -- Fiction
Archaeologists -- Fiction
Colorado -- Fiction
Divorce
Divorce -- Fiction
Electronic books
Excavations (Archaeology)
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Fiction
Fiction
Marriage
Marriage -- Fiction
Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.) -- Fiction
Multiple sclerosis
Multiple sclerosis -- Patients -- Fiction
Nature
Nature -- Fiction
Patients
Psychological fiction
Pueblo Indians
Pueblo Indians -- Antiquities -- Fiction
Women physicians
Women physicians -- Fiction
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Electronic books
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Fiction
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Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.) -- Fiction
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Nature -- Fiction
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Women physicians -- Fiction
Archaeologists' spouses -- Fiction
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Divorce -- Fiction
Electronic books
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Fiction
Fiction
Marriage -- Fiction
Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.) -- Fiction
Multiple sclerosis -- Patients -- Fiction
Nature -- Fiction
Psychological fiction
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Women physicians -- Fiction
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Multiple sclerosis
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Pueblo Indians
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Divorce
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Marriage
Multiple sclerosis
Nature
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