Erdrich, Louise

Twelve-year-old Omakayas, an Ojibwe girl, draws strength from the land and spirits as she and her family endure numerous hardships in their search for a new home in northern Minnesota in 1852.

On a spring morning in 1932, young Karl and Mary Adare arrive by boxcar in Argus, North Dakota. Orphaned in a most peculiar way, Karl and Mary look for refuge to their mother's sister Fritzie, who, with husband Pete, runs a butcher shop. So begins an exhilarating forty year saga brimming with unfogettable characters: Ordinary Mary, who causes a miracle, Seductive Karl, who lacks Mary's gift for survival. Sita, their lovely, distrubed, ambitious cousin. Wallace Pfef, a town leader bearing a lonely secret. Celestine James, a mixed-blood Chippewa, and her daughter, Dot. Theirs is a story grounded in the tenacity of relationships, the magic of natural events, and the unending mystery of the human condition.

A story of the intertwined fates of the Kashpaws and the Lamartines near a North Dakota reservation from 1934 to 1984.

Irene America, having discovered that her artist husband Gil is reading her diary, begins making things up for him to find, placing their marriage on even shakier ground, and while she drinks and works on her doctoral thesis about a painter of Native American subjects, Gil begins the defining work of his career, and their three children suffer the consequences of their parents' failed relationship.

Summoned by his grandmother, Lipsha returns to the reservation where he falls in love with Shawnee Ray. He finds himself at crossroads torn between success and meaning, love and money, the future and the past.

Summoned by his grandmother, Lipsha returns to the reservation where he falls in love with Shawnee Ray. He finds himself at crossroads torn between success and meaning, love and money, the future and the past.

The first book in Erdrich's Native American tetralogy that includes The Beet Queen, Tracks, and The Bingo Palace is an authentic and emotionally powerful glimpse into the Native American experience.

In 1911, a farm family is killed in Pluto, North Dakota, and three Ojibwe are lynched for the murders even though there is no evidence of their guilt; and years later, the events of the crime reverberate among the descendants of those involved.