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Compact Disc (April 30th, 2010): $29.This piece appears in the Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal: Catharsis, No.25.
Juvenile Fiction / Science & Nature / Environment. Juvenile Fiction / Diversity & Multicultural. Juvenile Fiction / Family / Multigenerational. Juvenile Fiction / Historical / United States / 19th Century. Juvenile Fiction / People & Places / United States / Native American. Her most recent book, The Night Watchman, won the Pulitzer Prize. Erdrich lives in Minnesota with her daughters and is the owner of Birchbark Books, a small independent bookstore. Love Medicine and LaRose received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Her novel The Round House won the National Book Award for Fiction. Louise Erdrich, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, is the author of many novels as well as volumes of poetry, children’s books, and a memoir of early motherhood. The beloved and essential Birchbark House series by Louise Erdrich includes The Birchbark House, The Game of Silence, The Porcupine Year, Chickadee, and Makoons. Though there are growing numbers of white people encroaching on their land, life continues much as it always has.īut the satisfying rhythms of their life are shattered when a visitor comes to their lodge one winter night, bringing with him an invisible enemy that will change things forever-but that will eventually lead Omakayas to discover her calling.īy turns moving and humorous, this novel is a breathtaking tour de force by a gifted writer. Omakayas and her family live on an island in Lake Superior. She was named Omakayas, or Little Frog, because her first step was a hop. This National Book Award finalist by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Louise Erdrich is the first installment in an essential nine-book series chronicling 100 years in the life of one Ojibwe family, and includes beautiful interior black-and-white artwork done by the author.
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