bean_season 's review for:

The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich

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I loved this!! I feel like she shares a lot of Barbara Kingsolver's remarkable writing strengths, but with more subtlety. This is not a dig on Kingsolver or saying that she lacks it, just saying I think Erdrich may have even more of it. This is only my second Erdrich book, though. Would love to read more but I may be too faint of heart for the more grim, murdery ones that she got all the awards for. But her last two novels were right up my alley. There's grim stuff in them, too, but she really covers the whole range, including plenty of wonderful humor.