Book Review
Jan. 24th, 2021 10:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kenjariThe Road Back to Sweetgrass
by Linda LeGarde Grover
This beautifully-written novel follows the lives of three Ojibwe women from the 1970s through the 2010s. It's relatively short, so we see Margie, Theresa, and Dale Ann and their lives through a series of episodes that mange to show the whole sweep of their lives despite their brevity. Each of them has ties to the Sweetgrass allotment on the Mozhay reservation, and each of them keeps coming back. Their stories are equal mixtures of sadness and hope set within a foundation of the interconnected relationships and community on the reservation.
While I found each of the women very interesting and their stories compelling, it was the writing that I loved best about this book. Grover's prose is incredibly beautiful and evocative. Not only were the sensory details made palpable to me, but I really felt their significance and weight as well.
by Linda LeGarde Grover
This beautifully-written novel follows the lives of three Ojibwe women from the 1970s through the 2010s. It's relatively short, so we see Margie, Theresa, and Dale Ann and their lives through a series of episodes that mange to show the whole sweep of their lives despite their brevity. Each of them has ties to the Sweetgrass allotment on the Mozhay reservation, and each of them keeps coming back. Their stories are equal mixtures of sadness and hope set within a foundation of the interconnected relationships and community on the reservation.
While I found each of the women very interesting and their stories compelling, it was the writing that I loved best about this book. Grover's prose is incredibly beautiful and evocative. Not only were the sensory details made palpable to me, but I really felt their significance and weight as well.
