Future Home of the Living God

Tense and memorable … A journey worth taking and a worthy addition to contemporary apocalyptic fiction. * Daily Mail *Believable and absorbing … Smart and compelling, it’s ultimately deeply unsettling … because it all feels horribly plausible. * SFX magazine *Erdrich is a wonderful storyteller and this rich, poetic tapestry is shot through with threads of despair and glints of hope. She deals unflinchingly with religion’s capacity to oppress, but also offers the consolations of spirituality. * Daily Mail *If you enjoyed Naomi Alderman’s The Power then Future Home is a more plangent, reflective variation on a theme … The tone is dreamy, close, pressing … an unsettling tale. * The Times *There is something particularly filmic about Cedar’s story. At times, her address to her unborn son resembles the voiceover of Sarah Connor, the pregnant mother on the run from cyborgs in the Terminator series. Erdrich’s narrative is not derivative or pulpy but its scenes are fast, visual, action-packed, perfect for film. And Cedar, like Sarah, is angry, fugitive, both powerless and brave, and ultimately a hero-mother in this chilling book,which is at once a dystopia and a state-of-the-nation novel. * Financial Times *

Louise Erdrich, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, is the author of many novels as well as volumes of poetry, children’s books and a memoir of early motherhood. Her novel The Round House won the National Book Award for Fiction. Love Medicine and LaRose received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and The Night Watchman won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. The Sentence was shortlisted for The Women’s Prize for Fiction 2022. Erdrich lives in Minnesota with her daughters and is the owner of Birchbark Books, a small independent bookstore. A ghost lives in her creaky old house.

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