LaRose, Louise Erdrich, author and narrator Because there are so many threads to this story, and so many important characters, even some that seem to be minor characters who have a major impact, it is best to portray them, and then briefly describe the book. It is a very entertaining and touching re...
For years I've intended to read a Louise Erdrich book, so decided to pick up her latest release. Once more people have read it, we'll have a clearer sense of how it fits into her body of work and whether this was just a bad place to start.Because I gave it 100 pages and still wasn't interested in an...
"The Birchbark House" is about a young Native American girl in the 19th century. This book follows her through the course of a year where the reader gets to experience the way that Native Americans lived and the hardships they faced during this time period. I would use this in third through fifth gr...
The Birchbark House is about a little girl name Omakayas who lived on an island with her family. Omakayas helped her family and did all she could to protect them during the smallpox epidemic. This book is about culture and survival. I would allow my students to read this book and bring some items to...
Erdrich's characters in The Plague of Doves will shadow me for a long time to come. Her poetic and heart wrenching descriptions of the grim realities of a small American town coexisting with a First Nation reservation is masterful. There are no borders of time in the storytelling, nor do emotional o...
A beautiful, engrossing coming-of-age story, which casually treads the line between myth and realism. Omakayas and her family are each interesting, unpredictable, and worth spending time with.My 9-year-old daughter loves this book. I just listened to it with my 11-year-old son, and we enjoyed it qui...
Fidelis, a German veteran of the First World War, emigrates to the United States where he sets up a butcher's shop in North Dakota and becomes involved with Delphine, the daughter of the town drunk. In the process both of them have to divest themselves of other relationships and entanglements. It's ...
When I started reading this book, I was struck by the similarities to Sherman Alexie's THE LONE RANGER AND TONTO FISTFIGHT IN HEAVEN, which I had read recently; both books are on a list of recommended literary fiction I'd been working through and are the first published prose book by each author. Bo...
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