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A Casa Redonda (2013)

by Louise Erdrich(Favorite Author)

3.89 of 5 Votes: 5

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Clube do Autor

review 1: Louise Erdrich has a knack for prose. She is a very good story teller, which probably has something to do with her Native American heritage. Anyways, she is such a good story teller that she decides to make chapter 8 just a huge facet of separate stories which got old after a little while. The plot was drawn out at the end of the story and should have ended long before it actually did, and the action wasn't there for too much of the time. Also, the leaps that we need to make as readers are almost too great because some of the important stuff happens off screen and we are just supposed to pick up on it. That and her stupid stylistic decision of not including quotation marks has earned her a two rather than a three or four that it probably could have gotten other... morewise.
review 2: This is only the second book by Louise Erdrich that I've read. I was wild about Love Medicine. This one is beautifully written, as well, and gives a glimpse into the lives of more educated American Indians than did Love Medicine, in this case a tribal judge and a tribal enrollment specialist. It also has more of a social justice agenda. The book is narrated by a man looking back to when he was thirteen and his mother brutally attacked. I admired how Erdrich revealed the details of the attack as slowly as the boy, Joe, learned them. I found a few things improbable, such as the old Mooshum revealing a complete fable in his sleep talk. But I appreciated the large cast of characters and the details of their life on a reservation. less

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