Books by Louise Erdrich
The Night Watchman
by Louise Erdrich
🏆 Winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Erdrich's sixth novel follows one community’s efforts to halt the 'Indian termination policies' of the United States in the 1950s. The Pulitzer Prize jury described it as "rendered with dexterity and imagination."
“The reason I picked Love Medicine is because I think about it all the time. Its subject is love and the story, which follows the interwoven lives of three families, shows us so many genres of love and bonds and attachment. The intertwining of families is part of life on many reservations, where a lot of families know each other intimately generation after generation. Erdrich explores what this context and her characters reveal about love.” Read more...
The Best Native American Literature
Megan Tusler, Literary Scholar
Interviews where books by Louise Erdrich were recommended
The Best Native American Literature, recommended by Megan Tusler
“There’s a lot more diversity within Native American literature than many imagine,” according to Megan Tusler. The University of Chicago academic and cohost of the Better Read than Dead podcast recommends five fantastic novels which avoid “the authenticity shuffle” and demonstrate the range of literary production by American Indians.
