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Not many authors could include all the things Erdrich does in this novel and make it work. A haunting, a bookstore, COVID, motherhood, George Floyd’s death and the ensuing protests, marriage, quarantine, and more.” Tookie’s courage and passion carry us; she is, throughout, a stalwart companion, facing hardship and aware of her own good fortune. “I live the way a person does who has ceased to dread each day’s ration of time,” she says – a motto to go by, surely, if we can.A study guide for Louise Erdrich's "The Bingo Palace". Gale, Cengage Learning. 2012. ISBN 978-1-4103-2049-0. Louise, Erdrich. "Louise Erdrich American author". Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved October 4, 2020. In addition to fiction and poetry, Erdrich has published nonfiction. The Blue Jay's Dance (1995) is about her pregnancy and the birth of her third child. [42] Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country (2003) traces her travels in northern Minnesota and Ontario's lakes following the birth of her youngest daughter. [43] Influence and style [ edit ] The Antelope Wife was published in 1998, not long after her separation from Michael and his subsequent suicide. Some reviewers believed they saw in The Antelope Wife the anguish Erdrich must have felt as her marriage crumbled, but she has stated that she is unconscious of having mirrored any real-life events.

a b "Louise Erdrich: About the Author: HarperCollins Publishers". Harpercollins.com. March 24, 2010 . Retrieved October 23, 2013. I would also say though that the book reminded me in some - not all aspects - of the most recent writings of Ali Smith: the Seasonal Quartet and particularly Companion Piece) and I have always thought that a non-UK reader cannot really fully understand Smith’s writing. Much of the author’s message regarding that has to do with love, friendship, community, family, and nature, as well as gratitude for whatever life, health, and freedoms remain in our grasp. The protagonist, Tookie, is aptly able to appreciate all this, having spent time in prison for a youthful love-and-drug-addled offense. Tookie manages in prison, after a fashion; books help a lot (even if at first she isn't allowed access to them); indeed, she finds: "the most important skill I'd gained in prison was how to read with murderous attention".LE: That just landed in my consciousness. I wrote it down and then thought, Oh, I have to think about this. Why am I writing this? And Tookie’s character emerged. Thus our name: Earth to Earth. And trees. We surround the loved one with trees. So that a grove springs up. Our motto: Graves to Groves. You can go there and meditate”.