Louise Erdrich

Finalist, 2001 National Book Awards
Finalist, 1999 National Book Awards
Winner, 2012 National Book Awards

Louise Erdrich, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, is the author of many novels as well as volumes of poetry, children’s books, and a memoir of early motherhood.
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The Last Report on the Miracle at Little No Horse

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ISBN 9780060187279 Harper Perennial / HarperCollins

This is the story of Father Damien Modeste, priest to his beloved people, the Ojibwe. Modeste, nearing the end of his life, dreads the discovery of his physical identity -- for he is a woman who has lived as a man. More about this book >

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The Birchbark House

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ISBN 9780786814541 Hyperion

The Birchbark House, the award-winning author Louise Erdrich's first novel for young readers, features Nineteenth-century American pioneer life as seen through the eyes of the spirited, 7-year-old Ojibwa girl Omakayas, or Little Frog, so named because her first step was a hop. We follow Omakayas and her adopted family through a cycle of four seasons in 1847, including the winter, when a historically documented outbreak of smallpox overtook the island. More about this book >

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The Round House

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ISBN 9780062065247 Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers

An exquisitely told story of a boy on the cusp of manhood who seeks justice and understanding in the wake of a terrible crime that upends and forever transforms his family. More about this book >

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Louise Erdrich

Louise Erdrich, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, is the author of many novels as well as volumes of poetry, children’s books, and a memoir of early motherhood. Erdrich’s The Round House won the National Book Award for Fiction, her novels Love Medicine and LaRose both received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, and her novel, The Night Watchman, won the Pulitzer Prize. Erdrich lives in Minnesota with her daughters and is the owner of Birchbark Books, a small independent bookstore.

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