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Future Home of the Living God

Louise Erdrich

Start date: July 1, 2023

Finish date: July 21, 2023

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Oct 19, 2017 Suzy rated it it was ok

Shelves: native-american, family-reunions, minnesota, fantasy

From a Kirkus Reviews blurb:

The idea that evolution could suddenly move backward may seem like an incredible fantasy, but in this dreamlike, suspenseful novel, it's a fitting analogue for the environmental degradation we already experience.

Louise Erdrich departs from her usual fiction set in the present and/or past to tell this tale of a devolving world and the police state that results from the panic that ensues. We enter just shortly after this devolution has begun, where pregnant women are be ...more

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Apr 07, 2018 Shomeret rated it it was ok

Shelves: science-fiction

I didn't hate it, but I didn't exactly like it either. There were characters that I liked but you need to be wary of investing in characters in this dark dystopia. I also need to say that Cedar Songmaker, the protagonist, wasn't one of the characters that I liked. She seemed excessively self-involved most of the time, and projected her own flaws on other characters. This doesn't mean that I felt she deserved her rather harsh fate. No one did.

I'm not really a fan of dystopias. When I read them ...more

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