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"As usual when closing a book by Louise Erdrich, I''m left wondering, how can a novel be so funny and so moving? How can life?" -- Ron Charles, Washington Post , on The Mighty Red "Erdrich should be a major contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature." -- Boston Globe "A new novel from Louise Erdrich....is always a literary event, and her latest continues one of American literature''s most remarkable winning streaks." -- The Guardian , on The Mighty Red
Summary
From Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich, a captivating collection of short stories
It was as though I was chosen—marked out by the python’s kiss for wisdom or maybe sorrow. Or perhaps, I think now, a sense of the ridiculous in extremes of experience. Also, I hoped for a long life.
WRITTEN OVER THE PAST TWO DECADES, Louise Erdrich’s magnificent story collection features a range of characters—a tribal newsletter editor whose son tells her a story that nothing in her experience can encompass, immigrant farmers whose tenuous hold on the earth, and sanity, is challenged, and ordinary people, bird lovers, artists, grade-school teachers, and romantics. A girl decides to spend her life with a stone. A man is confronted with a folk-singing thief. A woman enters a corporately owned afterlife to seek revenge on her father.
Accompanied by specially commissioned artwork by Aza Erdrich Abe—an intimate and revelatory creative collaboration between mother and daughter—these stories offer an opportunity to celebrate the wisdom and brilliant, wide-ranging imagination of one of America’s most important writers.
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"As usual when closing a book by Louise Erdrich, I'm left wondering, how can a novel be so funny and so moving? How can life?" - Ron Charles, Washington Post, on The Mighty Red
"Erdrich should be a major contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature." - Boston Globe
"A new novel from Louise Erdrich....is always a literary event, and her latest continues one of American literature's most remarkable winning streaks." - The Guardian, on The Mighty Red
