![]() The drum then “tells” its story, in three interconnected narratives. Reasoning that the drum-found among a white family’s possessions-was “stolen from our own people,” Faye absconds with it, then travels west with Elsie to the Ojibwe reservation to which they’ll return it. She’s a former drug user, now living with her mother Elsie and sharing the duties of Elsie’s “estates business” the lover of a moody German sculptor, and an assiduous observer and considerer of birds, other natural phenomena and persistent memories of her younger sister Netta’s accidental death in childhood. The drum is found, in a New Hampshire farmhouse following a sudden death, by Faye Travers, a middleaged divorcée of mixed ethnic origin, whose complicated personal life dominates the novel’s expository opening section. ![]() The eponymous Native American object vibrates powerfully-as both instrument and symbol-in this tenth volume in Erdrich’s epic Ojibwe saga. ![]()
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