The Painted Drum LP, (Paperback)

from mbergman

Erdrich tells 3 related stories related to the discovery of an Ojibwe ritual drum in the New England estate of a descendant of an Indian agent & its repratriation to the reservation where it was, before its sale, and becomes, after its return, intimately involved in the lives of the extended fami...

from pennsylady

The tale of the Ojibwe painted drum is told in three parts that weave together through the past and the present. Faye Travers, an estate appraiser who is part-Ojibwe, finds an amazing collection of American Indian artifacts in a home she is recently called to assess. She alone hears a low note fr...

from BeachWriter

When a mother-and-daughter team of estate appraisers in New Hampshire unearth a painted drum hidden the closet of a former Indian agent, they find themselves caught up in a saga that stretches generations into the past. In the process, they develop an understanding of their own roots and find the...

from laytonwoman3rd

As often happens with Erdrich's novels, I got to the end but do not consider myself "finished" with the book. As the title tells us, this one is about a ceremonial drum and its history over several generations. When two New England estate liquidators with vague tribal connections return the drum ...

from Dmtcer

One of the best paragraphs I've read in a long time: "Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your hea...