Louise Erdrich's The Beet Queen
Reading this for book club—I’m not sure I’ve actually read it before! It's Erdrich's second novel, and shares some characters with Love Medicine (it’s also set in the same town as her new one, The Mighty Red, which is an interesting companion/bookend, but not a direct sequel). It’s also surprisingly queer for a book that came out in 1986! I enjoyed the characters here (some better developed than others), though the writing is a bit more disjointed compared to some of Erdrich's later books. Still, obviously great. A-.
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