This was the first Erdrich book I read. It was also the first novel by a Native American woman I'd read. It was an assignment in my women's studies course and I was very young and very sure of myself and very knowledgeable about every little thing in the world.For some reason that I don't remember n...
Reading some of the reviews, I think that I might be the only one not really loving this book?I mean, I almost feel bad writing that, because of the theme of the book, and because of the afterword, but the book just didn’t grab me in any noteworthy way.It’s about Joe, a 13 year old boy in 1988. And ...
This book took me forever(!!!) to read. Not because it was dense or difficult or uninteresting... but because I started reading it on the day I got the keys to our new place. And then we had to move 1600+sqft of stuff and clean 1600+sqft of space in five days and then we were out of town for a while...
Depressing and emotionally difficult, but extremely well-written, particularly the combination of events in the novel and somewhat related folk tales. Great pacing.
The writing style put me off early on in this book as well as the lack of quotation marks (a "quirk" I have not come across before and really did not like). Getting used to the dialogue flow as the narrator recalled conversations, having to go back and re-read once I realized that several people we...
I rushed through this book a bit for book club, and I think that dampened my enjoyment of it a bit. I appreciate how the author blended themes and genres so well. It's a coming of age novel, but also a basic crime thriller, and a treatise on racism, and a sharp political portrait. That's pretty geni...
A wonderful novel that, though not lacking in action, is ultimately psychological. It's not necessary to have read Erdrich's other novels to enjoy this one.
One beautiful spring morning on an reservation in North Dakota the lives of one family were changed forever.It started out with 13-year old Joe and his father, Bazil Coutts, the tribal judge on an Indian Reserve in North Dakota, as they contentedly work together at spring yard cleanup. As the day tu...
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