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Future Home of the Living God
by Louise Erdrich
I don't know what this book did that The Handmaid's Tale didn't already cover. The author used a colored woman and made a concern about evolution but ultimately it was the same story. Even Cedar, who is narrating the story from a Native American point of view doesn't sound like a Native American. She was raised by white people in a white community.
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It might just be me but I didn't understand the point of the story. The woman visits her original family and it really didn't seem that important. Then, she's in hiding and we hear how that sucks for her, then she gets caught which is more exciting since she's helping to plan an escape (she had to be told a lot on how to survive in the hospital). She's free and then goes back to her Native American side of her family and hangs out, THEN gets caught. She sounds like she's on heavy drugs at the end and then she gives birth and it's over. Cedar goes through a bunch of shit only for her perfect baby to be taken away. So why did I read this book? Why should I have felt anything for Cedar that I didn't feel for any of the other background characters that were put in the exact same situation? The author didn't really put Cedar in a situation that someone in the Handmaids Tale didn't go through so I don't understand what she offered to the reader that was new.
SPOILERS:
It might just be me but I didn't understand the point of the story. The woman visits her original family and it really didn't seem that important. Then, she's in hiding and we hear how that sucks for her, then she gets caught which is more exciting since she's helping to plan an escape (she had to be told a lot on how to survive in the hospital). She's free and then goes back to her Native American side of her family and hangs out, THEN gets caught. She sounds like she's on heavy drugs at the end and then she gives birth and it's over. Cedar goes through a bunch of shit only for her perfect baby to be taken away. So why did I read this book? Why should I have felt anything for Cedar that I didn't feel for any of the other background characters that were put in the exact same situation? The author didn't really put Cedar in a situation that someone in the Handmaids Tale didn't go through so I don't understand what she offered to the reader that was new.