The Master Butchers Singing Club

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Call Number: Fiction / Erdrich, Louise, Adult Book / Fiction / Historical / Erdrich, Louise
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Westgate Branch

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Balance submitted by larkspur on May 12, 2008, 8:54am It is some time since I have read _Master Butchers_, so forgive the fuzziness of memory, with the events perhaps confused, perhaps enlarged in significance or perhaps simply lost. I couldn't even finish the book. I loved reading it, but I simply became too worried when, with under 20 pages to go, *major* events were still unfolding. I wasn't sure I could take whatever denouement Erdrich had in store!

The major characters in _Master Butchers_ come from very different backgrounds and approach their lives' trials with different aims, strengths, and failings. Often their interactions with each other are monstrously hard to parse, for they have obviously different significances to each participant. Several main characters are never close to fully defined. The reader observes almost as if a minor character, less "inside the heads" of the movers and shakers of the tale.

For my part, I was taken in by Erdrich's storytelling several books previously, yet _Master Butchers_ marks perhaps the first time I fell in love almost immediately with a character of hers, wishing both to shelter under his strength and personally to will his success. I knew enough of Erdrich to know that a great character comes with no guarantee of longevity or ultimate likability. I'll admit to getting lucky in those respects with Fidelis: other characters with a similar immediate impact become only farther from focus over the course of the story.

It's not a very linear story, by the way. There are many different strands that twine and then separate again. It's almost like what one sees of another's life.

storyteller submitted by unknown on July 28, 2013, 1:29pm This author is a great storyteller. The characters are interesting, the plot is intriguing and the descriptions artfully done.
The plot is sometimes choppy but it does come together.

Love it submitted by kferguson on July 24, 2016, 1:58pm love her writing