![]() ![]() ![]() Determined this time to discover why Erdrich is so revered as a writer, I read on but it wasn’t easy. I tried reading Erdrich’s award winning The Round House but never made it through. Nonetheless, it creates a compelling story. Although framed as a traditional old-world way of compensating for loss, the action is jarring and incredible. The hunter has a 5-year-old son of his own in keeping with the tribe’s tradition, 5-year-old LaRose goes to live with Dusty’s family. ![]() Erdrich creates the inconceivable – trading the hunter’s young son, LaRose, for the dead boy he shot. An Ojibwe man is out hunting for deer and accidentally shoots and kills his best friend’s 5-year-old son, Dusty. National Book Award winner Louise Erdrich makes a horrible incident more tragic in her latest novel of Native American life – LaRose. ![]()
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