The Plague of Doves
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The unsolved murder of a farm family haunts the small, white, off-reservation town of Pluto, North Dakota. The vengeance exacted for this crime and the subsequent distortions of truth transform the lives of Ojibwe living on the nearby reservation and shape the passions of both communities for the next generation.
In 1911, a family is killed in North Dakota and three Ojibwe are lynched for the murders, with no evidence of their guilt. Years later, the events affect the descendants of those involved. The plot contains profanity and sexually explicit situations.
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Really amazing writing. The story jumps around in time, which I usually find to be a style I don't like. But in this book, it is interesting and creates a feeling of putting together a puzzle which you finally solve at the end.
At first, a confounding dream. Difficult to get through, lots of information to absorb. Then, somewhere in the middle, it arrested me. I found myself reading it at the kitchen table and not having the slightest idea what time it was when I would close the book and have to take a breath. And in the end, when the questions got answered, I felt myself gasp. I'm not sure if I'll remember anything specific from this book; but I will remember that arresting feeling.
This is the second book I've read by Erdrich. I liked the Painted Drum better. I have this on my Kindle and I tend to have larger gaps of time between reading on it. Hard to keep track of the many characters and moving forward and back in time.
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