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A Novel
by Louise Erdrich
Book Reviewed by:Permit me to break the fourth wall. Like any good reviewer, I aim to analyze a book dispassionately, on its own terms. But personally, the true sign of a powerful work of fiction is if I dream about it—if I find myself in a character's shoes, feeling all the dread or confusion or exhilaration that they felt.
And that is exactly what happened with The Mighty Red, Louise Erdrich's latest novel. The action builds slowly—Erdrich's specialty—until one night I awoke sweating and grasping for consciousness to escape the book's suffocatingly small town and its desperate personalities. This is a fundamentally human story, suffused with elements of the supernatural, resulting in something both relatable and fantastical—and moving enough to influence your subconsciousness.
The Mighty Red takes place from 2008 through the early 2010s, with the Great Recession as a ...
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