Louise Erdrich
Louise Erdrich (1954 - ) is a novelist, short story writer, poet, essayist, memoirist, and young adult-and-children’s book writer. She is also a bookseller in the retail sense, the owner of Birchbark Books in Minneapolis, Minnesota. I remember reading short stories by her in Atlantic Monthly in the late 70s, confident and powerful stories, exotic for being set in contemporary Chippewa communities in the upper Midwest. Erdrich is an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of the Chippewa Nation, matrilineally descended. She was Dartmouth ‘76, the first class of women at the college. A writer since childhood, she arrived on the American literary scene practiced and graceful and eloquent — and has only fulfilled and transcended the promise of those early stories, which became the novel Love Medicine (1984).
The novel before The Sentence (2021), The Night Watchman (2020), won the Pulitzer Prize.
The Bingo Palace
The Bingo Palace
From award-winning New York Times bestselling author Louise Erdrich comes this novel of spiritual death, lyrical prose, and wild hope: a striking, luminous chapter in Erdrich's Ojibwe saga.
At the crossroads of his life, Lipsha Morrissey is summoned by his grandmother to return to the reservation. There, he falls in love for the very first time--with the beautiful Shawnee Ray, who's already considering a marriage proposal from Lipsha's wealthy entrepreneurial boss, Lyman Lamartine. But when all efforts to win Shawnee's affections go hopelessly awry, Lipsha seeks out his great-grandmother for a magical solution to his romantic dilemma--on sacred ground where a federally sanctioned bingo palace is slated for construction.
Louise Erdrich's luminous novel The Bingo Palace is a tale of spiritual death and reawakening; of money, desperate love, and wild hope; and of the enduring power of cherished dreams.
"Wonderful...hopeful, wrenching, funny, sexy, intense, and penetratingly true."--Los Angeles Times Book Review