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Future Home of the Living God | Louise Erdrich

so-so

I hate to compare books that have one or two similarities, but I feel the need to do it here. The Handmaid's Tale does it better. The Handmaid's Tale made me angry and hopeful. FHOTLG just bored me.

For my first Erdrich book, this may not have been the best place to start. We enter the story as pregnant Cedar is going to meet her biological Ojibwe mother. The story is told in journal entries to us, her unborn child. Throughout the story,⬇️

Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick I felt that the dystopian aspect, the devolving of society, wasn't fully fleshed out. We only know what Cedar knows or is told, but it really wasn't enough to make me care for the danger she's in. Fewer women are having natural babies, babies close to how we are presently, and many are stillborn. We don't know much about the greater world, much about what is affecting men, if there is anything there, and we don't know how the
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Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick theocratic government "Mother" came into power. The premise sounded great, but this felt like a few too many tangents - Cedar connecting with her Ojibwe roots, Cedar coming to terms with her pregnancy, the ideas of found family and then dealing with the devolution of society - and none of these ideas ever felt fully realized.
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TheAromaofBooks I'm always frustrated when an author tries to go too many different directions. 4y

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