The Master Butchers Singing Club National Book Award Finalist. A Novel

"An enrapturing plunge into the depths of the human heart." - Washington Post Book World

"[A] magnificent tale...poignant in the mysteries it evokes and patient with the questions it leaves unanswered." - Los Angeles Times Book Review

"[THE MASTER BUTCHERS SINGING CLUB] is marked by moments of true creative genius, exquisitely imagined and masterfully drawn." - Richmond Times-Dispatch

"Erdrich is an abundantly gifted storyteller, with a penchant for meticulous detail and tremendous empathy for her characters." - Charlotte Observer

"Lush and stark ... employing vivid imagery, deft description and dialogue that flows ... Stunning language." - St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"Delphine, the book's central figure, is Erdrich's most finely wrought and compelling character." - Denver Rocky Mountain News

"Appropriately grim and thoughtful, THE MASTER BUTCHERS SINGING CLUB is also full of tenderness and life ... Marvelous." - Entertainment Weekly

"Miraculous ...[Erdrich is] at the peak of powers as a writer ... Her work is as melodious as ever." - Boston Globe

"Louise Erdrich's rousing and radiant new novel THE MASTER BUTCHERS SINGING CLUB is all kinds of lovely." - Newsweek

"Louise Erdrich hits every note in THE MASTER BUTCHERS SINGING CLUB" - Vanity Fair

"A brilliantly layered look at war's costs ...Daring, graceful, comprehending and, rooted in the great plains, uniquely American." - Kansas City Star

"Rich and vibrant ...Magnificent." - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

"Satisfying and life-affirming." - Atlantic Monthly

"Not since Ricard Russo's 2001 novel EMPIRE FALLS ... have I enjoyed the company of such memorable characters." - Bob Minzesheimer, USA Today

"Intimate and epic, tender and violent ....Erdrich manages to reveal the hope and fears, the history and gossip, the public and private myths of an entire community. She writes with immense sympathy, without a trace of moralism, and with a grace that make the most extreme, even gothic, events plausible and convincing." - Francine Prose, People

"THE MASTER BUTCHERS SINGING CLUB can surely be cast as the most wrenching and wise of Erdrich's nine novels." - Miami Herald

"Each moment and its particulars dazzles ... Fidelis and firm-bellied Delphine and the rest [of the characters] are masterworks." - San Francisco Chronicle

"Emotionally resonant." - Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

"[A] masterpiece... Erdrich never hits a false note." - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

"The Master Butchers Singing Club reveals on of our finest writers at the peak of her considerable powers." - Minneapolis Star Tribune

"A substantial, beautifully composed, confident work of art ... both expansive in its reach and intimate in its intense focus." - O magazine

"Grand and generous fiction... Erdrich's most sweeping and ambitious yet." - BookPage

"A thoughtful, artful, painfully moving addition to an ongoing American saga .. unimaginably rich." - Kirkus Reviews