An Ojibwe teen seeks to bring his mother’s rapist to justice, and along the way awakens to the sweetness and sorrow of his community’s long-threatened, intricately formed, and ultimately loving soul.
We don’t know how Erdrich maintained humor and compassion throughout this story, alongside the terror and anger, but we hope to spend the rest of our writing lives figuring it out. One of the best reads of the century to date.
Yup, that’ what I said, and I’ll stand by that.
–Donna