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Name: The Painted Drum

Full title: The Painted Drum: A Novel
Author: Louise Erdrich
Year: 2005
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Popularity: 2.6
Genres/categories: Historical fiction, Award winners

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ISBN:
9780060515119
0060515112
Winner of the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Fiction in 2006.
Winner of the Minnesota Book Award for Novel & Short Story in 2006.

When a woman named Faye Travers is called upon to appraise the estate of a family in her small New Hampshire town, she isn't surprised to discover a forgotten cache of valuable Native American artifacts. After all, the family descends from an Indian agent who worked on the North Dakota Ojibwe reservation that is home to her mother's family. However, she stops dead in her tracks when she finds in the collection a rare drum-a powerful yet delicate object, made from a massive moose skin stretched across a hollow of cedar, ornamented with symbols she doesn't recognize and dressed in red tassels and a beaded belt and skirt-especially since, without touching the instrument, she hears it sound. And so begins an illuminating journey both backward and forward in time, following the strange passage of a powerful yet delicate instrument, and revealing the extraordinary lives it has touched and defined.

Compelling and unforgettable, bestselling author Louise Erdrich's Painted Drum explores the often fraught relationship between mothers and daughters, the strength of family, and the intricate rhythms of grief with all the grace, wit, and startling beauty that characterizes this acclaimed author's finest work.
This book is part of the "Love Medicine" series.
Here are some other books from this series:
Love Medicine
First published 1984
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, Pop Rating:4.6/10
The Bingo Palace
First published 1994
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, Pop Rating:2/10
Four Souls
First published 2004
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, Pop Rating:1.8/10
The Beet Queen
First published 1985
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, Pop Rating:2.9/10
Tales of Burning Love
First published 1996
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, Pop Rating:1.6/10
Tracks
First published 1988
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, Pop Rating:3.1/10
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
First published 2000
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, Pop Rating:3.3/10

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