Book Review: The Sentence by Louise Erdrich

Book #49 of 2022: The Sentence by Louise Erdrich There are fleeting moments in this contemporary novel that work for me, generally involving author Louise Erdrich’s #ownvoices observations of microaggressions towards Native Americans like herself. As a whole, though, it’s a very disjointed effort, especially after the coronavirus pandemic arrives halfway through the volume, followed …

Book Review: Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich

Book #67 of 2020: Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich The most effective parts of this novel are lifted straight out of The Handmaid’s Tale, and although there’s certainly room for multiple writers to tackle dystopian societies treating fertile women as chattel, we get too little information here about what that actually …

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