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Karen Louise Erdrich (/ ˈ ɜːr d r ɪ k / ER-drik; [2] born June 7, 1954) [3] is a Native American author of novels, poetry, and children's books featuring Native American characters and settings. She is an enrolled citizen of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians of North Dakota , a federally recognized Ojibwe people .
Birchbark Books, also known by its full name, Birchbark Books & Native Arts, is an independent bookstore in Minneapolis, Minnesota in the Kenwood neighborhood. Selling both books and works of art, it was founded by Pulitzer Prize–winning Native American novelist Louise Erdrich (Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians [2]) in 2001.
Michiko Kakutani wrote for the New York Times: “By turns comical and elegiac, farcical and tragic, the stories span the history of this Ojibwe tribe and its members' wrestlings with time and change and loss….From these stories, and the story of Father Damien's devotion to his adopted people, Ms. Erdrich has woven an imperfect but deeply ...
The Birchbark House is a 1999 indigenous juvenile realistic fiction novel by Louise Erdrich, and is the first book in a five book series known as The Birchbark series.The story follows the life of Omakayas and her Ojibwe community beginning in 1847 near present-day Lake Superior.
Exterior, Wassama Round House. The Round House is a novel by the American writer Louise Erdrich first published on October 2, 2012 by HarperCollins. [1] The Round House is Erdrich's 14th novel and is part of her "justice trilogy" of novels, which includes The Plague of Doves released in 2008 and LaRose in 2016. [2]
The Night Watchman is a novel by Louise Erdrich first published on March 3, 2020, by HarperCollins. [1] The novel is set in the 1950s. This is Erdrich's sixth standalone novel following Future Home of the Living God.
Love Medicine is Louise Erdrich's debut novel, first published in 1984 by Holt. Erdrich revised and expanded the novel in subsequent 1993 and 2009 editions. The book follows the lives of five interconnected Ojibwe families living on fictional reservations in Minnesota and North Dakota. The collection of short stories in the book spans six ...
The Game of Silence is a 2005 novel by Louise Erdrich. It is the second novel in "The Birchbark" series that began with The Birchbark House . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The two novels both feature the family of the Ojibwe girl Omakayas.