The Painted Drum (PB) Animals and healing

and healing

The book is organized into three sections - one section is a collection of 23 lyrical poems about her family and cultural heritage

and Rejuvenation

and a biographical sketch of the author

The Painted Drum (PB) Animals and healingLouise Erdrich, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, is the award winning author of many novels as well as volumes of poetry, childrens books, and a memoir of early motherhood. Erdrich lives in Minnesota with her daughters and is the owner of Birchbark Books, a small independent bookstore. While appraising the estate of a New Hampshire family descended from a North Dakota Indian agent, Faye Travers is startled to discover a rare moose