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The Plague of Doves

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The unsolved murder of a farm family still haunts the white small town of Pluto, North Dakota, generations after the vengeance exacted and the distortions of fact transformed the lives of Ojibwe living on the nearby reservation.

Part Ojibwe, part white, Evelina Harp is an ambitious young girl prone to falling hopelessly in love. Mooshum, Evelina's grandfather, is a reposito

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Published April 29th 2008 by Harper (first published January 1st 2000)

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Apr 22, 2013 Will Byrnes rated it 4 of 5 stars

We open with a scene of mass murder. A child (Moses, Kal-El) is spared when the killer’s weapon jams. He quiets the baby with music. Violence and music permeate the following tales and only at the very end do we learn who the baby grew up to be and the identity of the killer. There are other atrocities to come. How these events came to be and the ongoing impact of time and transformation define this book.

Multiple narrators, multiple generations, much overlap between Native Americans and European...more We open with a scene of mass murder. A child (Moses, Kal-El) is spared when the killer’s weapon jams. He quiets the baby with music. Violence and music permeate the following tales and only at the very end do we learn who the baby grew up to be and the identity of the killer. There are other atrocities to come. How these events came to be and the ongoing impact of time and transformation define this book.

Multiple narrators, multiple generations, much overlap between Native Americans and European settlers. This is apparently typical of her work. I began my character catalog by dividing between Native and European, but it became clear in time that there was too much intermarriage for that to be truly meaningful. I suppose one could add a “mixed-blood” section, but then what about quatroons, et al.

One narrator, Evelina, relates the stories told by her grandfather, Seraph Milk, also known as Mooshum. There are many to be told. In one striking scene, set in 1896, masses of passenger pigeons are devouring all the crops and seem biblical in their pestilential impact. Very grabbing. Other events are far too familiar, bigotry, lynching, murders, madness, greed. The characters are interesting and the stories intriguing. There are many characters and I often had trouble keeping them straight. In fact, entire train rides (I do most of my reading while commuting on the subway) were sometimes taken up with cataloguing them. This book needs a family tree illustration to help the reader keep track of the characters. (a comment I saw often repeated when I searched for information about the author on line).

There are many tales in this book, taking place over several generations in North Dakota. It is almost as if Erdrich had collected short stories and used a central core of blood relations to unite them. In fact, the acknowledgements section notes several magazines and short story collections in which parts of the book had previously appeared, lending support to that notion. I still do not know if the book was intended originally as a novel or pieced together from short stories.

So, who killed the family and who was the spared child? We get there in good time, with many side trips to the branches of the local family trees. It is a rewarding journey with stories that grab and hold on, sometimes magical language, and memorable characters.

This is a book worth re-reading. Once one has a sense of the whole, it becomes easier to pick out the elements, the relationships, the literary elements when traveling the path a second time, to see how Erdrich traces the echo of events down the corridors of time.

Highly recommended, but take your time, keep track and savor.

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Jun 23, 2011 Jennifer (aka EM) rated it 5 of 5 stars

Recommended to Jennifer (aka EM) by: jo

Shelves: for-the-desert-island, for-diane, idle-no-more

Can I keep giving all the books I read this year four or five stars? Is my judgement becoming less and less credible (assuming it had any credibility in the first place)? May I just say that it's all Goodreads' fault, and the many Goodreaders (you know who you are) who've led me to these authors and books that so precisely fulfill my every literary desire? I'm getting ruthless at picking and choosing among my to-read pile, going only for those I *know* will satisfy me - the responsibility for wh...more

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jo what, what a review. fantastic.

i must say that even though i read this some time ago, and even though (like you) i forget everything the moment i fini...more
Jun 23, 2011 11:40am

Rashida thanks for this review. It reminded me how much I love this book. I may just go out and buy it, so I can read it whenever I want. (I've long ago made...more
Jun 23, 2011 11:58am

Jennifer (aka EM) thank you, jo. Her voices are just amazing - comparing Evelina's to Dr. Cordelia to Judge Bazil Coutts - they are all so distinctive.

Evelina feels mo...more
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Dec 25, 2012 Mosca rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: involved readers

Recommended to Mosca by: Louise Erdrich

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We never really can escape our own histories. And our histories are darker than we realize.

These two truths frequently inform the complex plots and genealogies of Louise Erdrich’s fiction.

In many of her earlier writings she has taken whole series of books to puzzle these interlocking plots and genealogies. She reveals hidden identities. And follows bloodlines of power through families. And she shocks and haunts us with secreted knowledge that becomes, at least, partiall...more **************************

We never really can escape our own histories. And our histories are darker than we realize.

These two truths frequently inform the complex plots and genealogies of Louise Erdrich’s fiction.

In many of her earlier writings she has taken whole series of books to puzzle these interlocking plots and genealogies. She reveals hidden identities. And follows bloodlines of power through families. And she shocks and haunts us with secreted knowledge that becomes, at least, partially discovered. And, also, she creates unforgettable characters that must live with and stumble upon these bloodlines of power, hidden identities, and secreted knowledge. But resolutions to these generations of damage or to these stored potentials are not common.

However in “The Plague of Doves”, she assembles these decades of genealogies and identities, secrets and causal chain reactions, and mysteries into one single book. And this is no small task.

As any casual reading of published synopses will tell you, the murder of a farm family and the lynching of a small group of Native Americans and Metis sets in motion a prolonged series of misunderstood, but inevitable, repercussions. These repercussions continue, hidden by denial, and unobserved by the sleepwalking population living through almost a century’s worth of history in a declining North Dakota farm town.

This complex tale is told by a handful of changing narrators, each misunderstanding their own part of this complex and frequently emotionally difficult history of a reservation “border town”. The reader is challenged with piecing together the interlocking genealogies as well as the damaged family histories, so that an understanding of the tragic impacts of those murders and lynching may be discovered.

But this journey is seasoned with characters to love, and stories to remember. All told with the skilled paced writing of a master. My interest in the progression of the story was never lost. And my emotional involvement in the characters’ lives was held throughout. People I learned to love found themselves in histories impossible to escape.

And the impact of these experiences remains in my soul and will endure.
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Dec 14, 2008 jo rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: people who love great literature; people with a great love for storytelling

Shelves: american-indian, queer, psychic-pain, im-emigration-post-colonial

louise erdrich wrote this with the wind of the spirit at her heels. what amazing writing. i'm going slowly, because a) the writing is too beautiful to hurry; b) the story is too intense to hurry; and, less fancifully, c) i need a solid plot-directed narrative to keep me going these days, and this book doesn't have one, so i am reading when the need for aforementioned is not too pressing.

this novel goes back and forth in time and space, focusing on a host of characters of mixed indian-white ethn...more

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Aug 01, 2008 Sonja rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Pam Barnes

Recommended to Sonja by: No one

Louise Erdrich, master storyteller and language artist, does it again, but even better this time. Louise write about the intersection of the caucasian and Obijibwe (spelling?) of the Dakotas. This book, more than anything, explores the ripples in the pond effect one horrendous action can have on future generations in a community. Other reviewers have said that the book is too confusing, too many characters, too many storylines. My response is, that if you wish to know what it is like to live in...more

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Jul 27, 2008 David rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2008

Really, really good. There are multiple narrators and each of their stories could stand independently, but somehow they also form a cohesive novel. After you read the book, you should read Claire Messud's essay on The Plague of Doves in they July 17 issue of the New York Review of Books (or NYRB - pronouced "nerb," as in "Hey John - did you see the article on The Plague of Doves in the newest issue of the Nerb?"). I think it's on the website. I also think the book will be better the second time...more

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May 29, 2008 Elise rated it 3 of 5 stars

Interweaves the oral history & 1st person narratives of the members of a N. Dakota town & reservation to look at the aftermath & effects of an isolated murder of a white family and subsequent lynching of several innocent Indians. I couldn't read this in one sitting, so I was finding myself having a hard time keeping all of the different threads and families straight. There seemed to be so many that by the end when a new one started, I couldn't help thinking, "yikes, when is she is go...more

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Jun 12, 2008 Sarah rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: adult-fiction, historical, literary

Erdrich weaves the history of a small town in North Dakota, where over the years, the experiences of Native Americans and whites have tangled in a sometimes violent web. Some stories are more engaging and immediately grabbing than others, especially those of Holy Track who was lynched as a boy and of Marn Wolde, a woman with a passion for snakes who runs away with a preacher (who in turn develops a dangerous cult). The chapters and voices unite to create a common history of the area. Erdrich's w...more

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May 29, 2008 Katina rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2008

Louise Erdrich rules. I've liked her other stuff, but this book made even The Painted Drum pale in comparison. The characters in this book are complex and come alive and the narratives all weave together in unexpected and creative ways. I would recommend this for anyone, but especially for people with an interest in Native American history or folks from the Great White North (i.e., ND, SD, MN, or WI).

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Dec 04, 2012 Chance Maree rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: kindle, literary

This is one of the rare occasions where I enjoyed the journey without much concern over where the novel was heading. The characters, dialogue, and ambiance, along with skilled writing, made reading more of a pleasant book cuddle which I looked forward to each evening. That said, the surprise final wrap up which drew together all the strings was a cherry on the Sunday. This review sounds like literary comfort food, and perhaps it is. Multiple narrators voice their experiences within an Indian res...more

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May 30, 2008 Brenda rated it 5 of 5 stars

Brilliant, as always, from Erdrich. I actually think this is her best yet, and I still recall images from the award winning Bingo Palace and Love Medicine all these years later. The mix of humor, humanity and pathos is right, yet she does not spare us the horror that humans are also capable of. Just a perfect book.

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Jan 14, 2009 Ingrid rated it 1 of 5 stars

Well, I tried. An NYTimes book reviewer hailed this book as one of the top novels of the year (2008), so I bought the hype, scooped it up, and admired the cover for a long little while. Then I started reading ... and nothing grabbed my attention ... at all. And I became bored. Soon I realized I was 20-something pages in, had been introduced to a dozen characters, and felt completely unattached. Some might say I gave in too soon--that after 25 pages I should still be intently reading and waiting...more

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Apr 08, 2011 Joy H. rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction, selection-of-library-bk-group, didn-t-like, non-linear, has-time-shifts

RE: _The Plague of Doves_ (2008) by Louise Erdrich
[This book was a Pulitzer Prize finalist (Fiction, 2009)]
[I read this book in Jan/Feb 2009. I added shelves on 4/1/11.]

For my comments about this book, please see the following discussion thread:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...

Below is the my first post at the link above:
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Last night, our town library book group discussed _The Plague of Doves A Novel_ by Louise Erdrich.

Both the book and the...more

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May 25, 2011 Jessica rated it 3 of 5 stars

Lately I've been trying not to read too much about a book before I read it, though I wish I'd read something about this one. If I had just read here or over at Amazon, I would have figured out this was written in almost scraps, as stories, and not been so confused (I listened to it) as the story moved in tiny, episodic pieces. All delightful, well-crafted, and beautiful, but incomplete, at least in terms of what a novel might do.

That said, Erdrich is brilliant in the small moment, the tiny detai...more

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Jan 30, 2009 Suzanne rated it 5 of 5 stars

I'm a little bit behind on my Louise Erdrich, but reading this book reminded me of why she's always been one of my favorite writers. First, there's the gorgeous prose, then the wonderful stories which border on fantastic, and the quirky cast of Catholic and/or Native American characters. This one had a little bit more sex than I remember from previous books.

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Jun 06, 2008 Carolyn rated it 5 of 5 stars

louise erdrich is an extraordinary writer--the way she puts words together is like beautiful beading, and i already miss the characters, want to know more, will soon read the book again just to get back in that town. she moves around between characters and times and how the past affects the present, sometimes tangentially, sometimes full on in the solar plexus. her works altogether (and of course i have read every book)are creating a four (at least four...) dimensional spiral, a little galaxy. i...more

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Apr 15, 2009 Charly rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Anyone

I picked this up on a whim and found a very entertainiung piece about the workings of a small town at the edge of an Indian Reservation. It is a bit of a mystery but not really suspense. As the story unravels it begomes more and more intersting.

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Jun 01, 2008 Amy rated it 3 of 5 stars Recommends it for: people who enjoy Louise Erdrich writing

Shelves: 2008, general-fiction

I enjoyed this book. The writing was rich and poetic. The plot was a little tiresome based on the fact that Erdrich cast a wide net in this novel that is less than 400 pages. Each chapter was a different perspective and time. Sometimes I found myself enjoying what I was reading but a little confused with context ("how exactly did I get here?").
Also the jacket blurb leads the reader into thinking there is a mystery to be solved. There is but it seems like a minor part of the plot, but a big part...more

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Jul 23, 2008 Kerfe rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction

Erdich always tells a good story, and this is no exception.

A cast of thousands, all related by birth, marriage or trouble. Native Americans. Murders, births, tragedies, comedies, imprisonments, escapes, loves, hates--pieces of local history related from multiple points of view until they form a branched river that wanders off and circles ever back again to join in a muddy whole. Magic. Mystery. Numbing reality. Sex. Drugs. and of course, violins.

And the answer to "who done it?", at last. You sho...more

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Jun 06, 2008 Erica rated it 3 of 5 stars

I don't think Louise Erdrich can write a bad book, but this wasn't one of my favorites of hers. All the elements of a great book were there, but I felt like they didn't tie together. There were too many narrators that were too unrelated. The central "mystery" of the book wasn't played up enough. But there was some beautiful writing and character development in there. I would recommend for Louise Erdrich fans, but if you've never read her, start with Love Medicine or Tracks, and if you have read...more

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Jan 28, 2009 satsuma rated it 3 of 5 stars

Once when I lived in Sitka Alaska and was roaming around looking for a smoke, a man wearing a utilakilt (a canvas utility kilt made in Seattle) walked towards me on the sidewalk in front of the Pioneer Home, a curl of smoke issuing from his right hand. As it turns out he was in town to perform as part of a advant-garde ensemble at the Sheet'ka Kwaan Naa Kahídi Tlingit center later that day. I went to see the performance that had movie shorts accompany the shifting musical score. One short featur...more

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May 09, 2013 Julie Griffin rated it 3 of 5 stars

Erdrich's story is described as centering around a murder that happened long ago in a reservation town. The story begins with children listening to their grandfather telling about a time when the land was so overrun by doves that they covered the ground, broke windows and collapsed roofs, and most upsettingly drowned in the outhouse muck. Obviously this is an allegory but I could not really figure out for what exactly, except perhaps the crowded connections and interactions all over the land and...more

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Feb 15, 2013 Liz Zubritsky rated it 4 of 5 stars

The interweaving of the past and present lives of white settlers, Ojibwas, and their descendants in this murder mystery is fascinating. The story arc reflects many of the harsh realities of the Native American experience, past and present, without being maudlin or accusatory. The opening murder scene is riveting because of its simplicity. The next scene, the recounting of the plague of doves, is spellbinding despite its grotesque aspects. I loved the story of the violin and how the author linked...more

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Jan 22, 2013 Yvonne rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction, mystery, historical-fiction

This is the second of Louise Erdrich's books that I have read. I can see the similarities between the two books about quite different characters and the way they are developed. It is a story of life that takes place in area in the upper central part of the United States in the Midwest where the Red River flows. The descriptions of places and people are outstanding. The details of the action are well developed and beautiful to read. It is possible the feel like one is actually there.

The story be...more

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Dec 18, 2012 Nick D rated it 4 of 5 stars

The Plague of Doves seems at times less like a novel than a number of almost discrete stories in which characters reappear and plot tentacles stretch back into the past and then forward again to the present. That is no accident; the author herself acknowledges that parts of the novel were published as discrete stories in a variety of places. I admire the economic shrewdness of that strategy. This disjointed approach may in the end be a blessing. The stronger narratives will, one has confidence,...more

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Nov 25, 2012 Shonna Froebel rated it 4 of 5 stars

Erdich follows a small community at a reservation and the town nearby over 3 generations. In the early days there was an unsolved murder of a family. Only the baby was spared. Some in the community took action against supposed perpetrators, and the results of that still affect the community. There is intermarriage between the white townfolk and the native Ojibwe that also impacts the community.
One of the main speakers here is Evelina Harp. Her mother is Ojibwe and her father white and she has gr...more

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Nov 13, 2012 Sarah rated it 5 of 5 stars

This is another book I thought I might not enjoy because its not my usual genre choice. But it was amazing in a beautiful, subtle way. Its about a small North Dakota town and its inhabitants. It is made of several stories from different character perspectives, but slowly they all weave together like the lives of the small-towners that they are about.

There is humor, mystery, taboo love, a lynching, questionable miracles, an appreciation for nature, and incite into the human mind. One chapter abou...more

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Oct 05, 2012 Särah Nour rated it 4 of 5 stars

If one line of the novel were to sum up The Plague of Doves, it would be, “Nothing that happens here, nothing, is not connected by blood;” a quote which refers to the characters’ unscrupulous family histories as the driving forces of their actions. Louise Edrich’s Pulitzer Prize nominee haunts readers with its lyrically written, intricately plotted, and at times darkly comic portrayal of the multigenerational families of Pluto, North Dakota, and its nearby Ojibwe reservation.
Deviating from the t...more If one line of the novel were to sum up The Plague of Doves, it would be, “Nothing that happens here, nothing, is not connected by blood;” a quote which refers to the characters’ unscrupulous family histories as the driving forces of their actions. Louise Edrich’s Pulitzer Prize nominee haunts readers with its lyrically written, intricately plotted, and at times darkly comic portrayal of the multigenerational families of Pluto, North Dakota, and its nearby Ojibwe reservation.
Deviating from the traditional narrative structure, The Plague of Doves is comprised of a collection of stories. The first narrator is Evelina Harp—a bookish girl of mixed Ojibwe and white descent—who chronicles her family history, starting with the 1896 infestation of doves that destroyed the crops of Pluto’s ancestors; and the attempts of her great-uncle—one of the first Catholic priests of Native descent—to pray them away. Mingling with her narration is the voice of her grandfather Mooshum, a storyteller with encyclopedic knowledge of Pluto’s violent history: a town haunted by the unsolved 1911 murder of a white farm family, and the subsequent lynching of the Natives blamed the crime—a lynching that Mooshum somehow survived.
Other narrators include Marn Wolde, who transitions from innocent country girl to wife of a dangerous cult leader; and Judge Antone Coutts, descendent of one of the original white settlers; with overlapping accounts of Mooshum’s musically gifted brother, Shamengwa; and the redeemable delinquent Corwin Peace. Their stories intersect, compliment, and contradict each other as descendants of both the victims and the lynching party—their legacies complicated by marriage—are brought together by proximity, coincidence, religious faith, and the universal language of music; particularly the violin, an instrument of almost supernatural power; possibly a vessel of divine intervention.

Comic relief is provided mostly by the colorful character of Mooshum, whose mischievous antics and witticisms make him a scene stealer, and the most memorable character. Not only is he a knowledgeable source of tribal history; he’s also a prankster, a ladies’ man, and an occasional embellisher of the adventures of his youth. Though there’s no shortage of memorable and well defined characters, Mooshum is the one that readers will likely remember long after they have put the book down.

Though the novel may seem tangential at times, there’s never any doubt that Louise Edrich knows what she’s doing. The Plague of Doves is an ambitious novel of great complexity and philosophical reflection on how our cultures and our histories shape our lives, hitting all the right chords in a naturalistic and impeccable entwining of history with contemporary social consciousness.

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Aug 10, 2012 Melissa rated it 3 of 5 stars

The violent murder of a family in the North Dakota plains brings out the worst in a small community and affects its residents for generations to come. The murders lead the community to accuse and lynch local Native Americans in an attempt to serve their own brand of wild justice.

The story is told from multiple narrators; including Evelina Harp, Judge Antone Bazil Coutts, Doctor Cordelia Lochren and Marn Wolde. It touches on racism, religion, snake charming, kidnapping, murder, bullying, and mor...more

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Jul 08, 2012 Book Concierge rated it 4 of 5 stars

A family is brutally murdered in 1911 and a lynch mob hastily hangs several Ojibwe Indians living nearby. Decades later the descendants of those involved have intermarried and the stories of what happened have become distorted over time.

Erdrich published sections of this novel previously as magazine short stories. Different sections of the book are narrated by different characters. Unfortunately this does result in a somewhat disjointed story line, jumping back and forth in time between 1911 an...more

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About Louise Erdrich

Karen Louise Erdrich is a American author of novels, poetry, and children's books. Her father is German American and mother is half Ojibwe and half French American. She is an enrolled member of the Anishinaabe nation (also known as Chippewa). She is widely acclaimed as one of the most significant Native writers of the second wave of what critic Kenneth Lincoln has called the Native American Renais...more Karen Louise Erdrich is a American author of novels, poetry, and children's books. Her father is German American and mother is half Ojibwe and half French American. She is an enrolled member of the Anishinaabe nation (also known as Chippewa). She is widely acclaimed as one of the most significant Native writers of the second wave of what critic Kenneth Lincoln has called the Native American Renaissance.

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Louise Erdrich is one of the most gifted, prolific, and challenging of contemporary Native American novelists. Born in 1954 in Little Falls, Minnesota, she grew up mostly in Wahpeton, North Dakota, where her parents taught at Bureau of Indian Affairs schools. Her fiction reflects aspects of her mixed heritage: German through her father, and French and Ojibwa through her mother. She worked at various jobs, such as hoeing sugar beets, farm work, waitressing, short order cooking, lifeguarding, and construction work, before becoming a writer. She attended the Johns Hopkins creative writing program and received fellowships at the McDowell Colony and the Yaddo Colony. After she was named writer-in-residence at Dartmouth, she married professor Michael Dorris and raised several children, some of them adopted. She and Michael became a picture-book husband-and-wife writing team, though they wrote only one truly collaborative novel, The Crown of Columbus (1991).

The Antelope Wife was published in 1998, not long after her separation from Michael and his subsequent suicide. Some reviewers believed they saw in The Antelope Wife the anguish Erdrich must have felt as her marriage crumbled, but she has stated that she is unconscious of having mirrored any real-life events.

She is the author of four previous bestselling andaward-winning novels, including Love Medicine; The Beet Queen; Tracks; and The Bingo Palace. She also has written two collections of poetry, Jacklight, and Baptism of Desire. Her fiction has been honored by the National Book Critics Circle (1984) and The Los Angeles Times (1985), and has been translated into fourteen languages.

Several of her short stories have been selected for O. Henry awards and for inclusion in the annual Best American Short Story anthologies. The Blue Jay's Dance, a memoir of motherhood, was her first nonfiction work, and her children's book, Grandmother's Pigeon, has been published by Hyperion Press. She lives in Minnesota with her children, who help her run a small independent bookstore called The Birchbark.

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