A review by dllh
The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich

3.0

This one was a bit start and stop for me especially early on and didn't leave me with the sort of awe I have after reading some of Erdrich's books, but it does contain some of her characteristic lyricism, complex if sometimes puzzling relationships, sense of family and community, and lovely glimpses of some of the culture of the Native Americans she writes about (also the awful legacy of immigrant Europeans).