So any environmental or other issue is part of the narrative.”Įrdrich’s novels weave important historical events such as the Red River and North West resistance movements led by the Metis leader Louis Riel, German and Swedish immigrant homestead encroachments on Native lands, the Dawes Act and rape and murder on reservations. I try hard not to go on a rant because people don’t want to read that. “A book needs suspense, and the issues have to be part of the suspense.
“Both sides of my family, the German and the Indian, were great storytellers,” she says. But she writes almost poetically in a way that doesn’t sound like propaganda. Erdrich’s books frequently deal with important issues of social justice.
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