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How to pronounce Louise Erdrich: er-drik (means rich earth)
Louise Erdrich, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, is the award-winning author of many novels as well as volumes of poetry, children's books, and a memoir of early motherhood. Erdrich lives in Minnesota with her daughters and is the owner of Birchbark Books, a small independent bookstore.
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Louise Erdrich discusses The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse, how she was able to develop a character that vacillates between the male and the female so organically, and many other thought-provoking elements.
Q. Your novel The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
is the story of Father Damien Modeste and it spans from 1912 to the present.
A. 1911 or 1912, yes. It then moves forward to nearly the present. But it
also includes some history of characters and those histories occur before the
turn of the last century. It spans the emotional and historical landscape of my
previous books as well and, I hope, brings them into some sort of focus or sheds
new light on some of the characters's secrets. And of course it brings one
character, Father Damien, who was a minor contributor to the book Tracks, into
his/her own.
Q. Everything in the novel -- from people to places to the very landscapes --
seems to exist between two extremes. Damien is Agnes. Leopolda is somewhere
between sainthood and acts of cavalier cruelty. Even the bank robber is called
The Actor. There is almost a Manichaean split between things. And rather than
being an expose on hypocrisy, it's more that...
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