The Painted Drum - Louise Erdrich
Category: Novel
Narrator: Anna Fields
Tags: Novel, Historical Fiction, Adults
From the author of the National Book Award Winner The Round House, Louise Erdrichs breathtaking, lyrical novel of a priceless Ojibwe artifact and the effect it has had on those who have come into contact with it over the years., Haunted and haunting. . . . With fearlessness and humility, in a narrative that flows more artfully than ever between destruction and rebirth, Erdrich has opened herself to possibilities beyond what we merely seeto the dead alive and busy, to the breath of trees and the souls of wolvesand inspires readers to open their hearts to these mysteries as well. Washington Post Book World, While appraising the estate of a New Hampshire family descended from a North Dakota Indian agent, Faye Travers is startled to discover a rare moose skin and cedar drum fashioned long ago by an Ojibwe artisan. And so begins an illuminating journey both backward and forward in time, following the strange passage of a powerful yet delicate instrument, and revealing the extraordinary live
