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Louise Erdrich

Louise Erdrich grew up in North Dakota and is a tribal member of the Turtle Mountain Chippewa. Her novels include Love Medicine, The Plague of Doves and The Round House.

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Fiction | Issue 129
Fiction | Issue 129

Domain

Louise Erdrich

‘Seven corporations control the afterlife now, and many people spend their lives amassing the money to upload into the best.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 129
Essays & Memoir | Issue 129

First Sentence: Louise Erdrich

Louise Erdrich

‘We live in these places out of necessity, lucky to have them out of the terrible explosion of humanity.’

Fiction | Issue 115 padlock
Fiction | Issue 115 padlock

The Ojibwe Week

Louise Erdrich

‘Have you seen a beautiful naked antelope lady running through the streets?’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 115 padlock
Essays & Memoir | Issue 115 padlock

The Names of Women

Louise Erdrich

‘Ikwe is the word for woman in the language of the Anishinabe, my mother's people, whose descendants, mixed with and married to French trappers and farmers, are the Michifs of the Turtle Mountain reservation in North Dakota.‘

Fiction | Issue 115 padlock
Fiction | Issue 115 padlock

Night Prayer

Louise Erdrich

‘It was hot and windy in the garden of Our Lady of the Wheat, but inside the convent it was worse.’

Fiction | Issue 115 padlock
Fiction | Issue 115 padlock

I’m a Mad Dog Biting Myself for Sympathy

Louise Erdrich

‘I had never seen a child this little before, so small that it was not a child yet.’

Fiction | Issue 115 padlock
Fiction | Issue 115 padlock

Old Man Potchikoo

Louise Erdrich

‘But Potchikoo claims that his father is the sun in heaven that shines down on us all.’

Fiction | Issue 19
Fiction | Issue 19

Knives

Louise Erdrich

‘It is time, now, for Karl to break down with his confession that I am a slow-burning fuse in his loins. A hair trigger. I am a name he cannot silence. A dream that never burst.’

Fiction by Louise Erdrich.

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