A Wedge of Shade
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 …
Louise Erdrich's "A Wedge of Shade": "Every place that I could name you, in the whole world around us, has better things about it than Argus, North Dakota. I just happened to grow up there for eighteen years, and the soil got to be part of me." Home as the place you can't escape.