Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Erdrich’s apocalyptic pregnancy novel features a strong, funny narrator, strange events just beyond the border of the story, and a family defining itself and uniting in the midst of societal breakdown. It’s a tough, bleak story that feels scarily possible (with the help of 1 or 2 cataclysmic events), but Cedar (our narrator) carries us along with wry humor and clear observations about this strange new future. I wanted to know more about the events happening beyond Cedar’s narrative (which takes the form of a journal for her unborn child), but we catch only snippets. Occasionally the theologizing goes on a little long, and the ending felt thin to me, but perhaps that’s the story for humanity as we face our next chapter.
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