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I do think this book is amazing.Very hard to read at times, because of the plot, but the characters are so incredibly realized sometimes because of how true they are to real people, people I can imagine caught in the awful circumstances of their lives, and sometimes because they are so fictionally compelling. Linda and Lark, the unlikely twins, separated at birth, propel the story in a way that seems like a fairytale, or some grim legend. Having lived and worked for six months on a reservation i
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This is the best of the Erdrich books I have read. She successfully captures the mind and actions of a 13 year old boy on an Indian Reservation who is struggling with the vicious rape and attack on his beloved mother. The suspense of finding and punishing the guilty man keeps up through most of the book, although towards the end the momentum slackens. The ending seems fitting, but a bit tacked on. Recommended.
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