Future Home of the Living God
I don’t know what it is about this book, but it was one of
the better books I have read in a while. The book follows the story of Cedar,
an adopted woman of Native American descent, who finds out she is pregnant. Not
only is she pregnant, but she is pregnant while the world is falling apart. We
find that the way in which the world is ending is not what we are used to. Not
a “normal” apocalypse. I don’t want to give away any specifics about the
situation itself, so I will stop there. Future
Home of the Living God makes you question who is really there for Cedar and
maybe who would be there for you if you were in her situation.
There are not many books that end and leave me so…unsettled.
The way Erdrich builds the world in the book is both extremely familiar, but
also so different. There is no extreme collapse of the world described (burning
buildings, zombie wastelands, etc) but as you read, you can tell the world
isn’t right anymore. The author does an amazing job of not jarring the reader
into a world that isn’t relatable. The entire time I was reading Cedar’s
circumstances I was wondering “could this happen to me?” Obviously every tries
to put his or herself into a story, but I feel like I did that a lot more with
this book. I really wondered what I would do in the same situation. And
honestly, I don’t know what I would do. If the world ended in the manner that
it does in this story…well…lets just hope it doesn’t. Nobody wants to end up
like Cedar does. At least in my opinion.
I highly recommend this book for those who enjoy apocalypse
stories but also those who want realism in those stories as well. I’m happy I
got this book through Book of the Month and I think I will have to pick up more
of Erdrich’s books in the future.
I give Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich 📖 📖 📖 📖 .5/5.
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