![]() ![]() Faye's world, Erdrich says, contained the hardest truth she's ever tried to get at. ![]() Relationships for Faye are boats, little tippy vessels likely to founder. She's a woman who's ambivalent about feeling anything that rises above pleasant or sinks below unfortunate. It's the story of Faye Travers, who steals a painted drum from an estate she's appraising and decides to return it to the Ojibwa. WOODROOF: But this novel begins and ends in un-magic and un-mythical contemporary New Hampshire. LOUISE ERDRICH (Author, "The Painted Drum"): I work really out of mythology, so often I work out of a story that has remained lodged inside somehow, or I work out of history, you know, out of a sense of historical inevitability with characters. Its middle sections trek back to Ojibwa Nation land, where myth and magic compete to explain the power of "The Painted Drum." ![]() ![]() Sure, there's territory in the novel that will seem familiar to Louise Erdrich's readers. Martha Woodroof has this profile of the author. "The Painted Drum" is built around the internal life of a contemporary woman, and in it, Erdrich explores new territory: human relationships. Louise Erdrich is famous for writing stories anchored in Native American mythology, but her latest novel drifts free of her literary home base. ![]()
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