In this literary masterwork, Louise Erdrich, the bestselling author of the National Book Award-winning The Round House and the Pulitzer Prize nominee The Plague of Doves wields
her breathtaking narrative magic in an emotionally haunting
contemporary tale of a tragic accident, a demand for justice, and a
profound act of atonement with ancient roots in Native American culture.
North
Dakota, late summer, 1999. Landreaux Iron stalks a deer along the edge
of the property bordering his own. He shoots with easy confidence—but
when the buck springs away, Landreaux realizes he’s hit something else, a
blur he saw as he squeezed the trigger. When he staggers closer, he
realizes he has killed his neighbor’s five-year-old son, Dusty Ravich.
The
youngest child of his friend and neighbor, Peter Ravich, Dusty was best
friends with Landreaux’s five-year-old son, LaRose. The two families
have always been close, sharing food, clothing, and rides into town;
their children played together despite going to different schools; and
Landreaux’s wife, Emmaline, is half sister to Dusty’s mother, Nola.
Horrified at what he’s done, the recovered alcoholic turns to an Ojibwe
tribe tradition—the sweat lodge—for guidance, and finds a way forward.
Following an ancient means of retribution, he and Emmaline will give
LaRose to the grieving Peter and Nola. “Our son will be your son now,”
they tell them.
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