Louise Erdrich is the author of seventeen novels as well as volumes of poetry, children's books, short stories, and a memoir of early motherhood. Her novel The Round House won the National Book Award for Fiction. The Plague of Doves won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and her debut novel, Love Medicine, was the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Erdrich has received the Library of Congress Prize in American Fiction, the prestigious PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. She lives in Minnesota with her daughters and is the owner of Birchbark Books, a small independent bookstore.
"[A] meditative, profoundly humane story...Electric, nimble, and
perceptive, this novel is about 'the phosphorous of grief' but
also, more essentially, about the emotions men need, but rarely
get, from one another."--Kirkus Reviews (starred
review)
"[A] sad, wise, funny novel, in which [Erdrich] takes the native
storytelling tradition that informs her work and remakes it for the
modern world, stitching its tattered remnants into a vibrant living
fabric."--Minneapolis Star Tribune
"A brilliantly imagined and constructed saga of empathy, elegy,
spirituality, resilience, wit, wonder, and hope that will stand as
a defining master work of American literature for generations to
come."--Booklist (starred review)
"A magnificent novel from suicide to possible salvation, murder to
redemption, vengeance to volleyball. It is Erdrich at the top of
her form."--Providence Journal
"A magnificent, sorrowful tale of justice, retribution, and
love."--Vanity Fair
[A] superb new novel...[Erdrich immerses] us in this remarkable
world so thoroughly, so satisfyingly."--Miami
Herald
A brutal, ultimately buoyant dramatization of the way unexpected
kinships heal us."--O, the Oprah Magazine
"A fiercely resonant exploration of love, loss, and the tangled
ties that bind."--Entertainment Weekly, Best Books of 2016 so
far...
"[Erdrich] has laid out one of the most arresting visions of
America in one of its most neglected corners, a tableaux on par
with Faulkner, a place both perilous and haunted, cursed and
blessed."--Chicago Tribune
"A complex tapestry of retribution and acceptance...Ever the master
of emotions, Erdrich...incorporates elements of guilt, justice and
atonement."--Bookreporter.com
"A masterly tale of grief and love...Erdrich never missteps...The
recurring miracle of Erdrich's fiction is that nothing feels
miraculous in her novels. She gently insists that there are abiding
spirits in this land and alternative ways of living and forgiving
that have somehow survived the West's best efforts to snuff them
out."--Washington Post
"A powerful evocation of two families' struggle to overcome
misfortune.."--Houston Chronicle
"A stunning novel...A heartbreaking tale of love, family, and
obligation that spans generations."--Real Simple
"Breathtaking...[LaRose] may be her most graceful creation...The
recurring miracle of Erdrich's fiction is that nothing feels
miraculous in her novels. She gently insists there are abiding
spirits in this land and alternative ways of living and forgiving
that have somehow survived the West's best efforts to snuff them
out."--Denver Post
"Electrifying...Louise Erdrich's...most brilliant novel.--The
Twin Cities Pioneer Press
"Erdrich spins a powerful, resonant story with masterly
finesse...memorable and satisfying."--Publishers Weekly Starred
Pick of the Week
"Erdrich suffuses the book with her particular sort of magic-an
ability to treat each character with singular care, weaving their
separate journeys flawlessly throughout the larger narrative, and
making each person's pain feel achingly real. All the while, she
adds new depth to timeless concepts of revenge, culture, and
family."--Entertainment Weekly
"Erdrich's created an entire world, a realm bristling with a sense
of place, where plots unwind and surprise, the spirit world
suffuses everyday existence, and the past is as much a part of the
present as breathing...magnificent...It is Erdrich at the top of
her form."--Providence Journal
"Erdrich's richly layered tale brings a host of fascinating
characters to life as it builds to its haunting
resolution."--People
"In someone else's hands, this might turn out to be a stark
morality tale or a pure tearjerker. In Louise Erdrich's, it's
something else altogether... a novel more generous and less
predictable than might be expected, where revenge and human
planning in general take second place to life working itself out in
ways that no one human can predict or control."--The Columbus
Dispatch
"Incandescent...Erdrich has always been fascinated by the
relationship between revenge and justice, but...LaRose comes down
firmly on the side of forgiveness. Can a person do the worst
possible thing and still be loved? Erdrich's answer is a resounding
yes."--New York Times Book Review, front page review
"Louise Erdrich's latest novel LAROSE is, as usual, a gift to
treasure... Erdrich writes about reconnection and reconciliation
with such purity and precision, she'll crack your heart right open,
then mend it with care and leave your whole soul singing with
joy."--Buzzfeed
"Mesmerizing... Throughout her body of work, Erdrich has woven
complex narratives with rich character detail and the cultural
traditions of her Native American background. In LaRose, her
greatest strengths are on display as all these strands come
together under her masterful control."--Chapter 16
"Remarkable...As the novel draws to a conclusion, the suspense is
ratcheted up, but never at the expense of Erdrich's reflective
power or meditative lyricism...One of Erdrich's finest
achievements."--Boston Globe
"The rewards of LAROSE lie in the quick unraveling and the slow
reconstruction of these lives to a moment when animosities resolve,
like shards of glass in a kaleidoscope, into clarity and
understanding...Told with constraint and conviction..."--Los
Angeles Times
"Told with aching understanding...This timeless 15th novel stands
as one of Erdrich's best: comprehending and comprehensive, full of
cascading, resonant details punctuated with spiky
humor."--Kansas City Star
"You're going to want to take your time with this book, so lavish
in its generational scope, its fierce torrent of wrongs and its
luxurious heart. Anyway, you may have no choice, as you fall under
the spell of a master... Like Toni Morrison, like Tolstoy, like
Steinbeck, Erdrich writes her characters with a helpless love and
witnesses them with a supreme absence of judgment...[a] beautiful
novel."--San Francisco Chronicle
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