From the winner of the National Book Award for Fiction, 2012 comes
this elegantly crafted novel that explores the strange power that
lost children exert on the memories of those they leave behind When
Faye Travers is sent to appraise a family estate in a small New
Hampshire town and comes across a forgotten set of valuable Native
American artefacts, she is not surprised by the discovery. However,
she is shocked when she finds a rare drum - particularly because
without even touching the instrument she hears its deep resonant
sound. Following the discovery, we trace the drum's passage both
backwards and forwards in time. We hear the voice of Bernard
Shaawano, an Ojibwe, who tells of how his grandfather created the
drum after years of mourning his younger daughter's death and how
it changes the paths of those who cross it. Through Faye, we
experience her anguished relationship with a local sculptor who
also mourns the loss of a daughter, and witness the life Faye has
made alone with her mother, in the shadow of her sister's death.
Erdich poetically captures the intricate, transformative rhythms of
human grief that these losses create within her characters with
grace, wit, captivating prose and surprising beauty.
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