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    <body><![CDATA[I loved reading William Faulkner in college, so when I discovered in Louise Erdrich a similar depth of voice, honest characters and a consistent imaginative setting, I fell in love with her writing, too. I know <em>Love Medicine</em> is her classic, but <em>Tracks</em> was the first novel of hers I ever read, and as ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58285348">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's an adventure, reading books about one place and one set of people, but dependent on what's in the library, and what comes in on interlibrary loan.  I've read about the Little No Horse rez back and forth, in all kinds of incarnations, but I'd missed <em>Tracks</em> until this weekend.  And oh, what a bea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52401000">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;We started dying with the first snow, and like the snow, we continued to fall...&quot; So begins Tracks by Louise Erdrich, my favorite book by the Minnesota-born, Anishinabe / Lakota Sioux author. Through the conflicting narratives of Nanapush and Pauline, we become woven into the story of Fle...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53154253">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first Erdrich novel I have read. I enjoyed the technique of using different narrators that tell variations of the same framestory, while providing their own insights and experiences. <br/><br/>Nanapush is my personal favorite on this first reading, but I found the insanity of Pauline t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39538523">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had forgotten that I had already read Tracks!  Didn't matter, though, because it was still entirely absorbing. Erdrich makes her characters sad and humorous at the same time; she describes the porous curtain between this world and the next in a way that allows you to believe it completely -- a kin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42330092">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The story is told in two alternating narrating voices: Nanapush, a Chippewa elder, and Pauline, a Catholic converted mixed blood.  The story spans twelve years, from 1912 to 1924.  Nanapush is telling his story to Lulu, his social granddaughter, while Pauline seems to be talking to no one in particu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29197930">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Tracks is one of those books which can easily be read in a day. It's short, and it's good.  I originally read it for an undergraduate English course, but it was easy breezy enough for free reading.  It does deal with some pretty heavy themes, and if you have any metaphysical guilt regarding our trea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26533932">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[For a few years now I've heard my friend Judy say of this book, &quot;that's my favorite Erdrich book&quot; and now I think I understand why. It was wonderfully written, poetic and haunting. She's a little <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6149.Beloved" title="Beloved by Toni Morrison">Toni Morrison</a>-eque, only of the Native American world. I've heard her read and met her briefly...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22650601">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[After reading and teaching <em>Love Medicine</em> this spring, I felt a desire to return to Erdrich's work, which I had not read for some time.<br/><br/><em>Tracks</em> is the third book in Erdrich's series of interrelated novels following a particular Indian reservation in North Dakota.  Following after <em>Love Medic...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21746671">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My husband had to read this book for a history course on Native Americans several years ago. When his eyes were too tired to read, I often read sections out loud to him. Those small glimpses of the book were intriguing and I have long intended to read it fully. <br/><br/>It is the story of a peopl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60446443">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Brilliant.  The richness and complexity of the themes involved definitely made me feel like I was reading an Important Book, but it was also so beautifully written and so easy to read that I felt like its deeper meaning was effortlessly absorbed.  It's one of those books I would have loved to study ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58434400">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had a difficult time following this story. As a result, I would put it down and pick it up again a few months later. I never held the thread of the story. I was disappointed in myself, because I had heard enough to know that it was the type of story I would enjoy, if only I could get into it.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47884291">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What a sad and painful read. However, the characters are strong willed and proud and refuse to allow discrimination/racism/hatred/prejudice/violent crimes to destroy them. Told in flashbacks in contemporary times, we see the lives of many Native Americans in the early 1900's. The purpose of the tell...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40996071">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the best Erdrich I've read in a long time. I mean, really: it had Sister Leopolda as a viewpoint character. How can you go wrong there?<br/><br/>It was a lot more plotty and consistent than her books usually are (as much as I love them)--it stayed very tightly to the same core group of peo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22595796">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The three books in this series span generations and decades, and depict love, hatred, magic and sadness through one reservation's struggle to both retain its people's culture and adapt to the demands of American society.  Beautifully written and very powerful.  Tracks is my favorite of the three.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've obviously fallen for Erdrich's books.  I love her quasi-series set among Ojibwe, and how you can read any book at any point and watch the web of connections reveal itself.  This particular novel is one of her best.  It follows Nanapush, Pauline, and Fleur Pillager.  Fleur is a bit of a specter ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40210950">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was my first Louise Erdrich novel and I loved it.  Her writing style is entrancing.  I loved the intermixing of Native American myth with the political and cultural context of the early 20th century America. The fact that the story of Fleur Pillager is set in North Dakota while I'm here for the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40226630">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I did not enjoy this book.  It takes place in North Dakota as the last of the Native Americans are being driven from their land, and is told in different accounts through several characters.  The writing was fine, but in terms of storyline,  everything was focused on sex (almost always of the unplea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1612293">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Tracks is the third of Erdrich's novels, which I'm reading in order. Though sometimes difficult, vivid descriptions of her inter-woven characters and their lives are unvarnished, but at the same time hugely creative. I've learned much about Ojibwa culture, in the three different time periods covered...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57428033">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book in college and as I was going through a diagnosis at the time, I was kind of screwy on the details.  So I decided to give it another go.<br/><br/>I remember why I liked it.  Nanapush is such an original character and goes against the system.  He takes humor with the bad.  Pauline,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54219455">more...</a>]]></body>
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