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Louise Erdrich

Louise Erdrich is the author of books including “ The Mighty Red ” (2024) and the Pulitzer Prize-winning “ The Night Watchman ” (2020).

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7 picks · 1989–2015

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The Flower
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New Fiction by Louise Erdrich: An Ojibwe girl and a white clerk make a daring escape through the frozen north.

Nero
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Nero, a mixture of fierce breeds in a line known locally as guard dogs, was valued for his strength, his formidable jaws, and his resonant bark...

The Years of My Birth
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Short story about a physically deformed girl who is adopted by a Native American couple and lives with their family on a reservation.

Gleason
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Fiction by Louise Erdrich: “The boy stood, frail and skinny, in the snow with a sad look on his face and a gun in his hand.”

Mauser
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The narrator works for Jack Mauser's construction and road improvement company near Sioux Falls. Another employe, Travis Houpart, is married to …

The Bingo Van
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Lipsha Morrissey is a Chippewa Indian on a reservation in N. Dakota. He plays bingo in a quonset hut with many other Indians. He is obsessed with a van …

A Wedge of Shade
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The narrator returns home to her mother's house in Argus, North Dakota. Inside the shades are drawn because it's over 100 deg. & the fans are …