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By Amy M. Hahn, Pine Knoll Shores Realty
Year-to-date Pine Knoll Shores Market Report
Statistics reported below are year to date (June 10) for 2017 and as of the same date for
2016.
Residential
When comparing closed residential listings for Pine Knoll Shores, 2017 (10 units) vs. 2016
(11 units), the number of sales is down 9.1%. There have been 10 new listings added to the
inventory so far in 2017 compared to 2016 with 12 new listings year to date.
The median sale price year to date in 2017 is $422,500 (up 14.19% from $370,000 in 2016).
The median list price in 2017 is $374,950 (up 7.13% from $350,000 in 2016).
There are currently 44 single family residential properties and 42 condominiums on the
market Average days on the market is 368 days.
Land
When comparing closed land listings for Pine Knoll Shores, 2017 (year to date), (1 unit) vs.
2016 (2 units), the number of sales is down 50%. There has been one new listing added to the
inventory for 2017 which is no change from 2016.
The median sale price year to date in 2017 is $255,000 (down 21.3% from $324,000 in
2016). The median list price in 2017 is $247,000 (down 10.18% from $275,000 in 2016).
There are currently 35 lots available on the market in Pine Knoll Shores.
Information was found on NCRMLS on June 10, 2017,
and is deemed to be reliable, but is not guaranteed.
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14 The Shoreline I July 2017
Book Talk
LaRose by Louise Erdrich
HarperCollins, 2016
Reviewed by Ken Wilkins
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Louise Erdrich is one of our most accomplished writers, with awards galore for
her novels. She came to prominence with Love Medicine, her first novel, published
in 1984. She set a high bar for herself and has consistently met her standard. LaRose,
her latest, continues her use of Native American
history and characters. A common theme in her
works is tragedy and our human responses to
it. Here, the unthinkable happens and Erdrich
makes us look at how we might respond to it.
Landreaux Iron, a fine hunter, had traced
the bucks habits for weeks. He waited to shoot
him until after the corn harvest, when he was
his fattest. He sat at dusk one evening, saw the
buck just where he expected him and took the
shot. “When the buck popped away he realized
he’d hit something else—there had been a blur
the moment he squeezed the trigger. Only when
he walked forward to investigate and looked
down did he understand that he had killed his
neighbor’s son.”
It is next to impossible to imagine how one
would cope with such an event. Erdrich does ask
this question and, over 373 pages, slowly leads
us to a conclusion. She starts with the shooting, and then Landreaux and his wife,
Emmaline, decide to follow an old Ojibwe teaching and give their son, LaRose, to the
Ravich family; LaRose is to take Dusty’s place.
After taking a deep breath, the reader must continue. Erdrich takes us back to the
story of the first LaRose, a tough, intelligent Indian who killed her rapist and took up
with his helper. She endured a boarding school meant to make her white, returned
and married her man, and all the while fought tuberculosis, a scourge of Native
Americans. Her daughter, the second LaRose, also battled that disease. Erdrich, as is
her wont, shows us the injustices suffered by Native Americans, usually at the hand of
the white man. It’s not a pretty picture.
Landreaux has his demons, as do many of the characters. Father Travis Wozniak
survived the Beirut barracks bombing, and makes a minor appearance here. One of
the most interesting characters is Romeo Puyat, a petty theft and drug addict with a
life-long grudge against Landreaux. Peter Ravich, Dusty’s dad and Landreaux’s best
friend, is another of the male characters who is really only half-formed here. Ravich
is obsessed with the upcoming Y2K, and has put his family at financial risk with his
preparations—generators and back-up generators, food, clothing, water filters, and
on and on.
These male characters, especially, are not developed thoroughly, and this is
perhaps the only real flaw in LaRose. The other children turn out to be much more
interesting, and Erdrich’s portraits of LaRose’s older sisters and brothers are a
highlight of this novel. Comic relief comes from the elderly female residents of a
nursing home, with their bawdy jokes and sly humor.
Erdrich masterfully intertwines the stories of present-day LaRose with those of
his predecessors, along with the stories of the other young folks. The stories take us
beyond the tragedy and allow for healing to proceed. Themes of revenge and justice
are big here, as is often the case in an Erdrich novel. She takes the discussion to a
different level, however, by asking if, after the worst happens, we can live and love
again. Happily for us, her answer is yes.