I love Louise Erdrich. Aside from the fact that I love birds perching on heads, she is a profoundly beautiful writer that I have been blessed with reading.
I first discovered her novel Tracks in a University Course on 20th Century American Fiction and that bit me and since then, I have followed her output, each like a beautiful crumb that beckons one out of the woods.
It is a rare Louise Erdrich book I haven't read. She is a master story-teller - her command of place and voice often have reduced me to tears. What do I love - so much? The interweaving of characters that appear in different books, though stand alone on their own ( Fleur and Nanapush); the light upon a culture that has been changed and its struggles to remain and being of Native American and German descent, she is also a feast for the eyeballs.
Viva La Louise Erdrich!
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