![]() Currently, Erdrich lives in Minnesota where she continues to write and runs the Birchbark Books, an independent bookstore that seeks to create space for Native American authors. Her first novel, Love Medicine, won the National Critics’ Book Circle Award in 1984, and was based on a short story she collaborated to write with her ex-husband, Michael Dorris. There, she wrote many stories that took her indigenous heritage as inspiration. ![]() Erdrich wrote short stories and poetry from a young age, and in 1976 became among the first women to graduate from Dartmouth College. She and her mother’s family are members of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, a recognized tribe of which her maternal grandfather was tribal chairman. This novel began life as a short story inspired by fear of what seemed at the time America’s worst nightmare scenario: an impossibly unqualified, intellectually stunted man ascending to the Presidency despite getting fewer votes than his opponent who would initiate a reactionary hardcore conservative agenda designed to move the country closer. ![]() Louise Erdrich, the author of bestselling novels including LaRose and The Round House. ![]() The daughter of a Native American mother from the Ojibwe tribe and a German-American father, Louise Erdrich grew up as the oldest of seven children in Little Falls, Minnesota. Like any good dystopian thriller, Future Home of the Living God. ![]()
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