Name: Tales of Burning Love
Rating: 3.125 (4 reviews)
ISBN: 9780060176051

Louise Erdrich

Stranded together by snow just outside of Fargo, North Dakota, five women--all former wives of Jack Mauser--relate the stories of their lives, their dreams, their vulnerabilities, their passions, and their feelings for Jack and for one another. $150,000 ad/promo. Tour.

Tales of Burning Love

In her boldest and most darkly humorous novel yet, award-winning, critically acclaimed and bestselling novelist Louise Erdrich tells the intimate and powerful stories of five Great Plains women whose lives are connected through one man. Stranded in a North Dakota blizzard, Jack Mauser's former wives huddle for warmth and pass the endless night by remembering the stories of how each came to love, marry and ultimately move beyond Jack. At times painful, at times heartbreaking and often times comic, their tales become the adhesive that holds them together in their love for Jack and in their lives as women. Erdrich, with her characteristic powers of observation and luminescent prose, brings these women's unforgettable stories to life with astonishing candor and warmth. Filled with keen perceptions about the apparatus for survival, the force of passion and the necessity of hope, Tales of Burning Love is a tour de force from one of the most formidable American writers at work today.

A Novel

Daryl Houston

A lot of the language was good but so much of the middle part of the book in particular read as if it was written by an alien who had heard rumors about human beings and maybe seen a soap opera or two but didn't know how real people speak or behave. These parts were cringeworthy and really made the book a dud for me.

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