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Louise Erdrich

Start date: February 15, 2024

Finish date: March 15, 2024

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* The Schedule for July through Dec. 2025
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Feb 04, 2022 Dree rated it really liked it

Shelves: the-midwest, native-indigenous-am-can-lit, tournament-of-books, 2022-reads

4.5 stars. Why not 5? Maybe I will change it, but I feel a bit unsatisfied by the book wrapping up despite very little being finished. I kind of hope she might write a follow-up in the future, because how could she finish a modern-day novel about indigenous issues in the Midwest, COVID, police brutality/racism (especially in Minneapolis), and independent bookstores when all of these issues are currently ongoing? So maybe my rating is showing my ongoing frustrations with the very real topics in t ...more

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May 18, 2022 Renata rated it liked it

I’m so bummed. I really wanted to love this, but I just couldn’t get into the groove. It seems it was at once too much and not enough - too many themes and not enough depth. I am keeping the list of book recommendations, though!

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Dec 27, 2021 Rosana rated it it was amazing

Shelves: audio-books, 2021

I do wonder where Louise Erdrich had been all of my life. I think that I stay away form certain writers because I have built up such high expectations of them that I am afraid they will never be able to live up to it. But this book blew me away. I cried and cried.

I did not know how deeply the past year with Covid 19 and the death of George Flyod had affected me, until Louise Erdrich put into words so much of what I felt. I should start a shelf in Goodreads for books that punched me in the heart, ...more

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