LaRose

Louise Erdrich is the most interesting American novelist to have appeared in years - Philip Roth

Electric, nimble, and perceptive, this novel is about ‘the phosphorous of grief’ but also, more essentially, about the emotions men need, but rarely get, from one another. - Kirkus Reviews [starred review]

Powerful and affecting, LaRose is the story of two heartbroken families and the fragile bond between them in the wake of a major loss. - Buzzfeed, Incredible New Books You Need To Read This Spring

Edrich’s prose style is hugely engaging, a lovely, tender unfurling of day-to-day concerns and emotions alongside the mystical world of seat lodges, visions and visits from long lost elders - Sunday Express

A magnificent, sorrowful tale of justice, retribution, and love - Vanity Fair

A chronicler of the continuing destruction of Native American communities, she writes beautifully about what Indian children used to learn from their parents - Herald

Grief and guilt and unquenchable yearning overwhelm the pages … Erdrich has considerable powers as a writer of tragedy and comedy … it’s wonderful - Literary Review

Erdrich is a poet of lists, placing like and unlike together as if they were a series of Christmas lights, each individually illuminating, each gaining luster and brilliance from its placement, the whole blazing, incandescent … Perhaps the most important of Erdrich’s achievements is her mastery of complex forms … Woven into the specificity of these narratives is Erdrich’s determination to speak of the most pressing human questions. - New York Times