![]() ![]() The plot splinters as Evelina enrolls in college and finds work at a mental asylum Corwin spirals into a life of crime and a long-lost violin (its backstory is another beautiful piece of the mosaic) takes on massive significance. Though Evelina doesn't know it, both are descendants of lynch mob members. Over the next century, descendants of both the hanged men and the lynch mob develop relationships that become deeply entangled, and their disparate stories are held together via principal narrator Evelina, Mooshum Milk's granddaughter, who comes of age on an Indian reservation near Pluto in the 1960s and '70s and forms two fateful adolescent crushes: one on bad-boy schoolmate Corwin Peace and one on a nun. One, Mooshum Milk, miraculously survives. The family's infant daughter is spared, and a posse forms, incorrectly blames three Indians and lynches them. Erdrich's 13th novel, a multigenerational tour de force of sin, redemption, murder and vengeance, finds its roots in the 1911 slaughter of a farming family near Pluto, N.Dak. ![]()
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