Once the mixture was well combined, I covered the bowl with a dish towel to let it rest for about 45 minutes. Then, I slowly added my warm water, stirring it with a spoon until it was all added, and then kneading it with my hands. I sort of combined the two when making my bread.įirst, I combined my flour, salt and baking powder. I also poked around and found one from The Pioneer Woman that had a few more ingredients and included details on making Indian tacos. ) It seemed like the perfect food to accompany this novel.Īllrecipes had a recipe for fry bread that many commenters hailed as authentic and the most like their grandmothers’. In looking up the history of fry bread, I found that it also comes with a story of pain and suffering. Often on adventures around the reservation, Joe and his friends were fed Indian fry bread - occasionally with jam or honey, occasionally in the form of tacos. Overall, though, while the central plot was gripping, there was so much extra going on in the story that I found it distracting and was ultimately pulled away from Geraldine and her family’s plight. I thought using the son’s perspective to tell the story was an interesting choice, creating more suspense surrounding the attack. Louise Erdrich’s novel has been highly praised and is award-winning, but I didn’t like it very much. Joe strikes out on his own investigation, bringing him and his friends to a sacred meeting place on the reservation, The Round House. Both her husband and thirteen-year-old son Joe give her space to recover while still determined to do what they can to bring her justice.
On an Indian reservation in 1988, a woman is attacked but the details are immediately unclear as Geraldine is reluctant to discuss what happened.
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