The tale of the Drum seems to change from a myth to a real story. In the closing chapters of the book the Drum again takes its place among the Ojibwe people, healing and “looking after” its own. Read 1,040 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. When a woman named Faye Travers is called upon to appraise the. At the darkest point of his grief she appeared to him in a vision, instructing him to find the sacred cedars and build the drum. The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich The Painted Drum book. The Drum, Bernard tells us, came to be out of Shaawano’s desolation. It is a wonderful tale narrated by Bernard, Shaawano’s grandson, who is himself approaching old age. But there is much more to Faye’s story: her abortive love affair, a tragic crash that kills young neighbors, the orchard she refuses to let bloom again, her fascination with ravens, and underneath all – the childhood death of her sister, Nette.įaye returns the Drum to the Ojibwe, and here begins the second story, the Drum’s story. Astonishingly, she stole the drum, intent on returning it to its rightful owners, the Ojibwe people. She tells us that while appraising the value of her neighbor’s estate – she is an estate dealer – she found a ceremonial drum of extraordinary value. It took some sixteen years for Louise Erdrich to complete The Painted Drum, a masterwork of deeply colored, exquisitely drawn life scenes.
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