From the Bookshelf of Retro Chapter Chicks

The Painted Drum
by
Start date
December 1, 2021
Finish date
December 31, 2021

Find A Copy At

Group Discussions About This Book

No group discussions for this book yet.

What Members Thought

Book Concierge
Book on CD narrated by Anna Fields.
3.5***

Faye Travers and her mother run an antiques business in their New Hampshire town. When Faye is asked to appraise an estate, she discovers a that the man who died is descended from an Indian agent who worked on the Ojibwe reservation that is home to Faye’s mother’s family. Among the artifacts in the attic is a rare drum. From this point the story moves back and forth, in time and location, as we learn the history – and future – of this particular drum.

T
...more
Tasha
Dec 24, 2021 rated it really liked it
3.75 rounded up to 4

I did it, I completed the Love Medicine series! I really enjoyed most of the books, just one didn't really grab my attention so overall, a beautifully written series of books.

This one started off dark and depressing and I can't say that really ever changed but there was certainly hope at the end so it's worth reading. Once we got into the history of the drum and the people involved, I was finally more engaged although I didn't connect as much to these characters as to previou
...more
Robin P
Feb 15, 2023 rated it really liked it
Taylor
Dec 31, 2021 rated it really liked it
Shelves: fiction, indigenous
Sarah Brown
Jun 10, 2023 marked it as to-read
Shelves: own