A review by lurdesabruscato
The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich

3.0

I really wanted to LOVE The Plague of Doves, a tale of tragedies and triumphs in a small North Dakota town and its neighboring Native American reservation. Told by several narrators, from a precocious "half white, half Indian" 10-year old to a world-weary doctor/town historian with eerie links to both communities, it weaves a decades-old mystery with modern blights. Erdrich's language is gripping and many of her characters stay with you. But the book's era-jumping and thin connections between chapters and characters made for more confusion than clarity.