Well this looks like a good one doesn't it? Pulitzer Prize winning author and now this one showing a sticker for the long-list for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2022. Bound to be a winner you would think? Well, maybe, but maybe not. Stand by for me to embarrass myself by offering comments on a book written by Louise Erdrich. The first chapter was brilliant. We meet Tookie, an American Indian with attitude and a firm belief in living life by her own rules. It's 2005 but she is partying like it was 1999. She describes herself as an ugly woman who enjoys lying and her main talent is selling people useless things for prices they can't afford. What's not to love? The writing is witty and irreverent and I started to congratulate myself on finding another great book. Then I turn the page to chapter two. Tookie is a changed woman (fair enough, a stint in prison can do that to a person) but Erdrich is crashing through major life events ...