Tracks (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Louise Erdrich
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Parents and children, Biracial people, Midwest, 1910’s, Native Americans or American Indians, Convents or nunneries, Nuns
- Locales: Argus, ND (fictive), Chippewa Indian Reservation, North Dakota
TRACKS is the third in Louise Erdrich’s projected cycle of four novels which began with the award-winning LOVE MEDICINE and continued with THE BEET QUEEN, which remained on THE NEW YORK TIMES best-seller list for four months. TRACKS is likely to win an equally enthusiastic response. It is set farther back in time than the first two novels--during the period 1912 to 1924--and a number of characters from the earlier novels reappear.
The leading characters are Chippewa Indians, and the story is told through two narrators. First is the shrewd Nanapush, a tribal elder with a biting...
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