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New Releases by Louise ErdrichLouise Erdrich is the author of The Mighty Red (2024), The Red Convertible (2021), The Sentence (2021), Bingo Palace (2021), Fight of the Century (2021).
release date: Oct 01, 2024
A FINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE FOR FICTION In this stunning novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich tells a story of love, natural forces, spiritual yearnings, and the tragic impact of uncontrollable circumstances on ordinary people’s lives. History is a flood. The mighty red . . . In Argus, North Dakota, a collection of people revolve around a fraught wedding. Gary Geist, a terrified young man set to inherit two farms, is desperate to marry Kismet Poe, an impulsive, lapsed Goth who can''t read her future but seems to resolve his. Hugo, a gentle red-haired, home-schooled giant, is also in love with Kismet. He’s determined to steal her and is eager to be a home wrecker. Kismet''s mother, Crystal, hauls sugar beets for Gary''s family, and on her nightly runs, tunes into the darkness of late-night radio, sees visions of guardian angels, and worries for the future, her daughter’s and her own. Human time, deep time, Red River time, the half-life of herbicides and pesticides, and the elegance of time represented in fracking core samples from unimaginable depths, is set against the speed of climate change, the depletion of natural resources, and the sudden economic meltdown of 2008-2009. How much does a dress cost? A used car? A package of cinnamon rolls? Can you see the shape of your soul in the everchanging clouds? Your personal salvation in the giant expanse of sky? These are the questions the people of the Red River Valley of the North wrestle with every day. The Mighty Red is a novel of tender humor, disturbance, and hallucinatory mourning. It is about on-the-job pains and immeasurable satisfactions, a turbulent landscape, and eating the native weeds growing in your backyard. It is about ordinary people who dream, grow up, fall in love, struggle, endure tragedy, carry bitter secrets; men and women both complicated and contradictory, flawed and decent, lonely and hopeful. It is about a starkly beautiful prairie community whose members must cope with devastating consequences as powerful forces upend them. As with every book this great modern master writes, The Mighty Red is about our tattered bond with the earth, and about love in all of its absurdity and splendor. A new novel by Louise Erdrich is a major literary event; gorgeous and heartrending, The Mighty Red is a triumph.
release date: Nov 16, 2021
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release date: Jan 19, 2021
release date: Jan 01, 2021
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Future Home of the Living God
release date: Nov 14, 2017
release date: Jan 01, 2017
release date: Oct 25, 2016
release date: May 10, 2016
release date: Jan 01, 2015
release date: Oct 02, 2012
release date: Aug 21, 2012
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release date: Aug 15, 2010
release date: Oct 13, 2009
release date: Mar 17, 2009
The Master Butchers Singing Club
release date: Mar 17, 2009
release date: Mar 17, 2009
release date: Oct 29, 2008
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The Master Butcher's Singing Club
release date: Jan 01, 2003
release date: Oct 01, 2002
release date: May 13, 2002
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse Reading Group Guide
release date: Apr 01, 2002
release date: Jan 01, 2001
The Birchbark House Book People
release date: Jul 06, 2000
release date: Mar 03, 1999
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