![]() The previous novel in her North Dakota cycle, the luxuriously complex “Plague of Doves,” which was a finalist for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize, followed the reverberations of a lynching near the Ojibwe reservation in 1911. She’s particularly interested in the trail of blood left through the lives of survivors and ancestors. In rich, loosely linked stories about Indian and European families in and around the fictional town of Argus, N.D., she explores our conflicted desires to belong and exclude, desires that can motivate any of us - Indian or immigrant - toward acts of devotion or cruelty.Ĭrimes sit at the center of some of Erdrich’s most powerful stories. ![]() And yet her books never feel like a whip for right-thinking people to lash themselves with for the ill treatment of Indians. Few writers have done as much to help modern readers consider the position of American Indians within a national culture that has denigrated, ignored and romanticized them. The Round House by Louise Erdrich (Harper)īook by book, over the past three decades, Louise Erdrich has built one of the most moving and engrossing collections of novels in American literature. ![]() ![]() Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menu ![]()
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