A review by kdahlo
Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich

4.0

I ended up liking this book a lot, although I found the start a bit slow and a bit incongruous with how the book turns out. I found the narrator quite interesting, and I enjoyed particularly her fights with her parents which I thought were very nicely observed, the way that habits of attack and defense can emerge suddenly and against the will of the participants. The book picks up a lot in the second and third sections, the book takes a while to build up speed and get going. I definitely want to read more books from this author because I thought the narrator's voice was great, and I would love to see how much of that character was invented, vs. it being a voice that comes through across the works of this author.

I heard of this book from Code Switch, where it was described as a 'pandemic read' because it deals with themes of isolation and apocalypse. Definitely true, and there are some nice parallels between this book and reality that made me giggle. I still found it sufficiently escapist that it wasn't a slog to read.