The Brown Bag group will meet at 1 pm on
Wednesday February 6th in Room 7 at Shepardson Center to discuss
"The Painted Drum" by Louise Erdrich
"Native American antiquities specialist Faye Travers, bereaved of her sister and father, ambivalently in love with a sculptor who has lost his wife and loses his daughter, stumbles onto a ceremonial drum when she handles the estate of John Jewett Tatro, whose grandfather was an agent at the Ojibwe reservation. Under its spell, she secretes it away and eventually repatriates it to that reservation on the northern plains—the home of her grandmother. The drum is revived, as are those around it. Gracefully weaving many threads, Erdrich details the multigenerational history surrounding the drum. Erdrich crafts a provocative read elevated by beautiful imagery, as when children near death fly off like skeletal ravens".