I was taken by Louise Erdrich’s The Sentence from the start, lingering over the epigraph, “From the time of birth to the time of death, every word you utter is part of one long sentence.” –Sun Yung Shin, Unbearable Splendor...
The title of this review is a reference to a message sent by President Andrew Jackson to the Choctaws and Chickasaw Indians in the 1830s indicating that, as a friend, he planned to move their people to the Trans-Mississippi West,...
~ The Mighty Red, by Louise Erdrich ~ Birchbark, 2024. Louise Erdrich is a national treasure. I’d read only two of her books, The Round House and LaRose, and both were gorgeous, deeply emotional without being sentimental, suffused with the...
I have read a couple of other Erdrich novels, and so far, this one was the most accessible to me. Not that any of the others were less well written, but this one made access easiest for the non-initiated American...
I just know I am not going to be able to do this book justice because I suspect I did not fully grasp the topic matter and all its implications, but I will review it anyway because I enjoyed it...
~ LaRose, by Louise Erdrich ~ As with all good writing, each novel in Erdrich’s Justice trilogy can stand on its own. Set in and around a Native American reservation in North Dakota, they are loosely linked stories featuring an...
~ The Round House, by Louise Erdrich ~ Joe Coutts is an only child in an unusually (by his description) stable and happy Indian (Native American) family on an Ojibwe reservation in North Dakota. His mother parses the bloodlines and...
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