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Louise Erdrich

Louise Erdrich is the Turtle Mountain Chippewa American novelist behind Love Medicine (1984), The Round House (2012, National Book Award), LaRose (2016), The Night Watchman (2020, Pulitzer Prize), and The Sentence (2021). Erdrich is one of the canonical contemporary American Indigenous literary novelists of her generation and runs Birchbark Books in Minneapolis.

Reviews

2

Books on file

2

Avg rating

5.0

Years active

2012-2020

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  • The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich 2020 review. A Turtle Mountain Chippewa night watchman fights the 1953 federal termination policy. Pulitzer Prize winner.

  • The Round House by Louise Erdrich 2012 review. A thirteen-year-old Ojibwe boy investigates the rape of his mother in 1988 North Dakota. National Book Award winner.