Author: louiseerdrich

Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich’s grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, D.C., this powerful novel explores themes of love and death with lightness and gravity and unfolds with the elegant prose, sly humor, and depth of feeling of a master … of a master craftsman.Thomas Wazhashk is the night watchman at the jewel bearing plant, the first factory located near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a Chippewa Council member who…

From a New York Times bestselling author: A tragic accident forever links two families when Landreaux accidentally kills his neighbor’s young son… and offers his own child as penance. “A masterly tale of grief and love” (The Washington Post) with over 4,000 five-star ratings on Goodreads.

A New York Times bestseller and National Book Award winner with almost 20,000 five-star ratings on Goodreads: In this “stunning and devastating tale” (Booklist starred review), a young Ojibwe boy seeks answers in the wake of a tragic event. “Gripping” (Entertainment Weekly).

“Haunted and haunting. . . . With fearlessness and humility, in a narrative that flows more artfully than ever between destruction and rebirth, Erdrich has opened herself to possibilities beyond what we merely see—to the dead alive and busy, to the breath of trees and the souls of wolves—and inspires readers to open their hearts to these mysteries as well.”— Washington Post Book WorldFrom the … WorldFrom the author of the National Book Award Winner The Round House, Louise Erdrich’s breathtaking, lyrical novel of a priceless Ojibwe artifact and the effect it has had on those who have come into contact with it over…