Customer Review: The Art of Getting Well: Maximizing Health and Well-being When You Have a Chronic Illness
I have loved Louise Erdrich for years, ever since I found Love Medicine in the 80s. She tells amazing stories about her overlooked people, the Indians of the North Plains. She writes with stunning... more info
Customer Review: I first read this book my junior year in high school and was completely captivated by the imagery. I found myself thinking about it long after I had turned the last page. One of my favorite portions of the book reads, "We sit alone. The sun falls down the side of the world and the hill goes dark.... more info
Customer Review: I both read the book and listened to it. The book carries you through the four seasons during 1849 with a young Ojibwe and her family. This book is fascinating, the history and descriptions for chores is fantastic. There is hardship and work and joy and aggravation. It's a regular family. That's... more info
Customer Review: It is some time since I have read _Master Butchers_, so forgive the fuzziness of memory, with the events perhaps confused, perhaps enlarged in significance or perhaps simply lost. I couldn't even finish the book. I loved reading it, but I simply became too worried when, with under 20 pages to go,... more info
Customer Review: This book was assigned reading for a writing class I am taking. Since I had no idea why it was assigned, I read it just to enjoy and I did find it both informative and thought provoking. The switch between the past and present is smooth and some descriptive passages are wonderful. This was... more info
Customer Review: The story focuses around the lives of an Indian man and a little girl who are sole survivors of disease that run rampant through their tribe. The man forms a kind of grandfatherly relationship to the little girl who lost her family. The locals believe that this girl has supernatural powers.... more info
Customer Review: Last Report falls in the category of books for me that I would term 'perfect.' The characters are richly drawn, the writing is deft and lyrical, and the storyline itself is an amazing journey. Erdrich has proven herself again and again as an accomplished writer. This is the book (imho) that puts her... more info
Customer Review: Omakayas, or Little Frog, is now twelve winters old. Her family, members of the Ojibwe tribe, have been forced from their homes on the Island of the Golden-Breasted Woodpecker, and are now making the long journey to Lac Du Bois, where members of her extended family are living. Omakayas and her... more info
Customer Review: Omakakeyens. A young girl's name. A name that is a signpost that you are entering a way of life far from your own. Her days are filled with her family, their way of life within the pattern of the seasons, a relationship to all living and growing things around them. This is the 2nd of what is... more info
Customer Review: At the end of Louise Erdrich's Tracks, the fearsome, fetching, dangerously divine Fleur Pillager--a Chippewa earth mother so idolized by the author as to seem a form of creative self-caricature--finally walks away from her beloved patch of Dakota forest, abandoning it to the whim and destruction of... more info
