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I am not a literary critique by no means but I LOVE to read and enjoy a great story. I spend my quiet/down time before bed reading & when I don't have a good book on the nightstand, it's a hard time to fall asleep... so with that I must share my latest read, Four Souls by Louise Erdrich . Aside from Fleur ( the main charactor), some chapters told about the relationship between Margaret and Nanapush... I laughed for them (and cried too). Margarets story about the making of her medicine dress really got to me, made my heart know what "Margaret" was feeling about her stitching mission.

On the copyright page it said I could quoate in a review mode so here goes...

From page 176 of "Four Souls" by Louise Erdrich......

"To sew is to pray. Men don't understand this. They see the whole but they don't see the stitches. They don't see the speech of the creator in the work of the needle. We mend. We women turn things inside out and set things right. We salvage what we can of human garments and piece the rest into blankets. Sometimes our stitches stutter and slow. Only a womans eye can tell. Other times, the tension in the stitches might be too tight because of tears, but only we know what emotion went into the making. Only a women can hear the prayer.

So the medicine dress wanted me to make it. A privilege I might have had no use for twenty years ago. Or forty. But now that I have lived upon this earth and seen what I have seen, I was ready. And so I began where all things begin-with the death of something else."


Ahhhhhhh...
And the making of the medicine dress begins .... If you want a good story, give Four Souls a try... Fleur is a determined charactor as well.