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National Book Foundation > Author > Louise Erdrich
Louise Erdrich is the author of fourteen novels, a volume of short stories, several books of poetry, and a series of children’s books. She lives in Minnesota and is the owner of Birchbark Books, a small independent bookstore. More about this author >
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 >
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 >
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 >