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I knew this was going to be something special from the very first poem, and I was so happy to be proven right. I've never encountered Louise Erdrich before this, so words cannot say how glad I am that I picked this up on a whim from the secondhand bookstore. A reminder of how magic literature can be; that surprise favourites can still find us spontaneously, organically, even in a world of tailored algorithms.
There's something so compelling about how Erdrich muses equally on the darkness and the beauty of her life, lineage, and locale. Hauntingly gorgeous. Anyone interested in an exploration of feminism, Gothic Americana, folklore, tradition, misogyny, and colonialism, that holds space for all these themes honestly and without platitude, should try this collection.
There's something so compelling about how Erdrich muses equally on the darkness and the beauty of her life, lineage, and locale. Hauntingly gorgeous. Anyone interested in an exploration of feminism, Gothic Americana, folklore, tradition, misogyny, and colonialism, that holds space for all these themes honestly and without platitude, should try this collection.