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The Master Butchers Singing Club draws you into the story with its unique title and keeps you reading because of the emotion packed mysteries that unfold throughout the story. This story is like peeling back the layers of an onion, you may cry a bit, bleed a little, smile sometimes, all while you taste the flavor of comedy meets tragedy. Each layer of the onion, like the layers in the story are related and intertwined. Truly this story of Fidelis Waldvogel, a WW1 vet from Germany who immigrates
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My favorite Erdrich novel so far (it's my third). The narrative spans 30 or 40 years and a lot of characters make their way through the story, but the book is focused on two families who I became very fond of. Erdrich is particularly good at following children as they grow and noting the subtle ways they change as they become more independent. She also shows how intertwined lives in a small town are, in ways expected and not. A perfect summer book.
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Erdrich does it again...never have I read three novels by one author and given all of them five stars. I wish this book would become the new standard for Western fiction set in the late 19th/early 20th c. Haunting, magical, and yet utterly of this earth. This is Erdrich’s true gift. She is a treasure.
I did not finish it but wanted to get it off my reading list. This is the second book by Louise Erdrich I have read in the last two months. I enjoy her writing but I stopped when I got involved in the first chapter and then, true to form, wham we are in another narrative in the next chapter. I just couldn't whip around eight or nine different winding stories again. I don't mind differing points of view but the last two of her books have lacked the central thread necessary for carrying my interes
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