In Tatro's attic, among other Ojibwe artifacts of great value, Faye finds a mystical drum of hollowed cedar and moose skin. Even the German's resident ravens laugh they embody more spiritual significance than any other inhabitants of Revival Road (excepting the orchard spiders).įaye's plodding life finally pivots with the death and estate sale of John Jewett Tatro, whose grandfather was an Indian agent on the Ojibwe reservation. Peach-colored granite with flecks of angry mica." It must be the one-eighth Ojibwe blood that makes Faye detail her story with thick Native American animism. It's a breach of credibility.įaye sleeps periodically with a neighbor, a German artist, "a fire-breathing crank" who refuses to "see me as I am. "The story surfaces here, snarls there, as people live their disorder to its completion." Erdrich tries to sow suspense with these ominous, poetic observations, but she has put them into the mouth of Faye Travers - ex-addict, failed clothing saleswoman and abbreviated daughter. On Revival Road, sons and neighbors manage to do each other considerable harm. This is where we live, my mother and I, just where the road begins to tangle." "Uphill and left, a broad and well-kept piece of paving leads, as the trunk of a tree splits and diminishes, to ever narrower outgrowths of Revival Road. The two women run an estate sale business from their remote house on Revival Road. Middle-aged, childless Faye Travers lives in a New Hampshire village with her mother.
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