The Bingo Palace | Characters
The Bingo Palace begins and ends with women, as a community voice follows Lulu Lamartine in the post office, speculating about her doings in the first chapter, and a community voice at the end of the novel follows the real and then the mythic footsteps of Fleur Pillager, Lulu's mother, as she goes to the burial cave of her ancestors with bones. Both characters are concerned with land and its uses and the quality of the lives of their children and grandchildren.
Lulu starts the action by sending a stolen wanted poster of her son, Gerry Nanapush, a felon and Indian activist,...
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