A Swiss paper revisits Louise Erdrich's métis roots
Le Courrier has published a piece titled "Le sang de la rivière," tracing the biography behind the American novelist's fiction, though the source gives no details of a specific new book.
The Geneva daily Le Courrier published on November 5 an article headlined "Le sang de la rivière," devoted to Louise Erdrich. According to the paper, Erdrich is described as an exceptional storyteller whose fictional world is rooted in her mixed heritage: born in 1954 to a German-American father and an Ojibwe mother, she grew up in Wahpeton, North Dakota, in Native land near the Canadian border.
Le Courrier notes that her body of work now runs to roughly twenty novels along with short stories and other writing. The available summary of the piece does not specify which book, if any, prompted the article, nor does it give a plot, a publisher or a publication date for a new title.
Erdrich, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, has long drawn her fiction from Ojibwe history and from the landscapes of the Upper Midwest. Readers who keep her earlier novels on their shelves will recognize the biographical thread Le Courrier traces, even as the specific occasion for this piece remains unclear from the material available.
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