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Jan 30, 2024paulcolucci rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
I finished this book earlier this month, however waited to leave my review after spending a few weeks considering the book's impact on me. After much contemplation, I have concluded that this book is an absolute masterpiece. Eldrich weaves…
Dec 26, 2023
"Themes along the same lines as the Handmaid's Tale - but based in Native American culture." - Mindy R.
Jun 28, 2023BaeReads rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
Future Home of the Living God follows Cedar Hawk Songmaker as she tries to navigate surviving in a world that is going evolutionarily backwards and prosecuting pregnant women. The novel starts with Cedar getting a letter from her Ojibwe…
Oct 01, 2022Keeper_of_the_Book_Hoard rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Well written and thought provoking. The book follows the arch of the main character's pregnancy in a time of pandemic and social collapse (written before Covid). It may inform and challenge the average reader's assumptions about indigenous…
Jun 23, 2022JCLAliceRP rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Despite the bizarre subject matter, this book is strangely calming: possibly because Louise Erdrich tells this story in a more stable, linear way than she has told some of the stories in her earlier books. This is fascinating, relevant,…
Jun 16, 2021joyinthepages rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
This read was part of a buddy read in an on-line reading groups (thank you SarahKat). I'm glad I pushed myself out of my box to read sci-fi/dystopian. A book by Louise Erdrich made it easier to do. It's hard to read outside of your…
Apr 24, 2021bonster1026 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Rare to read a book twice, but this from the magical mind and very serious heart of a true teller of tales, this deserves multiple readings. Hard to believe I met Erdrich in a telephone interview when THEY were married, with children and…
Jan 03, 2021nk00300 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
I really enjoyed this book despite some rather negative comments from other reviewers.
Aug 03, 2020Michael D Kurtz rated this title 1.5 out of 5 stars
A very disappointing book. The premise of reverse evolution was intriguing but barely explored. The principal character was self absorbed and sorely lacking in compassion, curiosity and even intelligence. The characters aground her were…
Jun 14, 2020theviolet41 rated this title 1.5 out of 5 stars
I read this, but honestly did not enjoy it It falls into the "unreliable narrator trope. There's a good premise to the story; the vagueness of evolution reversing, but nothing is fleshed out because our narrator doesn't know or doesn't…
Feb 21, 2020maipenrai rated this title 1 out of 5 stars
I love Louise Erdrich - she wrote on of my all time favorite books: Love Medicine. I hate dystopian Fiction. Kristi & Abby Tabby
Feb 19, 2020
I haven't read this yet, but a friend noted this is a serious, dystopian read! My friend also pointed out this book has a local connection! Erdrich writes of Custer's horse, Comanche. Comanche is on display inside KU's Natural History…
Dec 20, 2019OPL_AnnaW rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
If you're a fan of The Handmaid's Tale, this book is for you. The climate is becoming increasingly unstable, evolution seems to be moving backwards, and government mass surveillance is increasing. At the center of this is our narrator, a…
Jun 17, 2019mynovelesquelife rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
This weekend I finished two novels written by two authors I have been wanting to try for a long while.  Every time I read a synopsis to a Louise Erdrich's book, I want to (and often do) add it to my to-read shelf.  Her books sound so…
Mar 25, 2019WoodneathKristie rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
Future Home paints a gripping picture of a society ravaged by climatological and sociological crisis. Moving back and forth between the banality of upper-middle class suburban Minneapolis and the unique pacing of daily reservation life in…
Oct 23, 2018Banks_SusanC rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
This novel has lots of compelling, appealing characters. The plot is a little out there, and the ending is not what we've come to expect from these types of stories. But, all-in-all, the book is thought-provoking and entertaining.
Sep 01, 2018kazizumi rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
I love Erdrich's writing and was eager to read this after reading "Roundhouse" which I thought was a wonderful story. I could not immerse myself in the plot of this book.
Jun 02, 2018NFN rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
This is a very disappointing book, with lots of underdeveloped themes, boring asides, and unconvincing characters. Better to stick with Atwood's original and far superior version of American dystopia.
May 28, 2018joycerlove rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
I enjoyed this book until the ending, which left me feeling like I had just wasted 3-4 hours of my life.
May 10, 2018ksellgren rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
This could easily serve as a prequel to Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale”. It shows how our country could become Atwood’s terrifying dystopia.
May 03, 2018durksenary rated this title 1.5 out of 5 stars
At some point Erdrich or her editor decided, several decades ago, that the manuscript wasn't ready for publication. They were right at the time and should have left it alone or made an effort to fix the problems. It's almost as if the…
Apr 16, 2018BWilsoned rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Wow! Erdrich knows how to write them, and this one is awesome. Cedar, part Ojibwe, adopted by crunchy hippies, finds her birth mother at a time when evolution, apparently, has stopped moving forward. Pregnant women are imprisoned until…
Apr 08, 2018Lotushead rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Louise paints a very frightening future.
Apr 01, 2018ArapahoeAnnaL rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
A lyrical celebration of and eulogy for maternal love and life as we know it. The book is told in the first person in the form of a letter 26 year old Cedar writes to her developing fetus. Not as well thought out as Erdrich's other books,…
Mar 28, 2018LucasHill rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
I have read comments by other reviewers that this is too much like other works (The Handmaid's Tale and The Children of Men, to name a couple) to be truly original. Erdrich apparently began writing this decades ago, and now believes that…