Python's Kiss

‘Written over the past two decades, these 13 tales are rooted in the tender portrayal of farmers, mothers, artists and teachers… [a] captivating collection’ * Daily Mail *Louise Erdrich has been described as one of the greatest American writers, and this collection lives up to that billing … These are hopeful and sad and wistful lives, lives of people trying their best. Every story is intriguing, most are funny, many poignant … [They] remind me of Raymond Carver and of Annie Proulx … Maybe what makes Erdrich’s writing so vital is that in such places of seasons and wide nights and animals, the fact of death is more present, and thus more visible to the writer’s eye. – Lucy Sweeney Byrne * irish 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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