Indian Affairs (Magill Book Reviews)

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In his first novel, WHAT I’M GOING TO DO, I THINK (1969), Larry Woiwode explored the newly married life of Christofer and Ellen Van Eeananam, a life made tense with Ellen’s pregnancy and eventually made tragic with the loss of that child in infancy. In this latest novel (the second in a projected trilogy), Woiwode returns to his couple, seven years after the death of their son.

Now, not only do they have to cope with each other and with the problems of their marriage, but they also must accommodate themselves to various elements of their pasts. Ellen struggles with the...

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