Antelope Woman
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The Antelope Wife extends the branches of the families who populate Louise Erdrich's earlier novels, and once again, her unsentimental, unsparing writing captures the Native American sense of despair, magic, and humor. Rooted in myth and set in contemporary Minneapolis, this poetic and haunting story spans a century, at the center of which is a mysterious and graceful woman known as the Antelope Wife. Elusive, silent, and bearing a mystical link to nature, she embodies a complicated quest for love and survival that impacts lives in unpredictable ways. Her tale is an unpredictable ways. Her tale is an unforgettable tapestry of ancestry, fate, harrowing tragedy, and redemption, that seems at once modern and eternal.
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This was an interesting journey. Literary and surreal and horrific in a lot of parts, but very real. I did follow the plot for the most part; it's my own fault that I kept stopping and starting and losing my place. I will say that in some places, it was almost too surrealist. Although it didn't derail nor read in an entirely confusing manner, it was still somewhat difficult to follow. I don't think it needed more “explanation” but rather more expansion. There's a lot that could've been “more” in that sense and it only would've added to how tasty the baseline prose already was. The story itself tugged at me and the sense of being “trapped” and how those tables turned (no spoilers) was really well done. But I was not entirely captivated with this one.
