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Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country: Traveling Through the Land of My Ancestors

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For more than three decades, bestselling creator Louise Erdrich has enthralled readers with dazzling novels that paint an evocative portrait of Native American life. From her dazzling first novel, Love Medicine, to the National Book Award-winning The Round House, Erdrich’s lyrical skill and emotional assurance have earned her a spot alongside William Faulkner and Willa Cather as an creator deeply rooted within the American landscape.

In Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country, Erdrich takes us on an illuminating tour in the course of the terrain her ancestors have inhabited for centuries: the lakes and islands of southern Ontario. Summoning to life the Ojibwe’s sacred spirits and songs, their language and sorrows, she considers the many ways during which her tribe—whose name derives from the word ozhibii’ige, “to write”—have influenced her. Her journey links ancient stone paintings with a magical island where a bookish recluse built an unusual library, and she reveals how both have transformed her.

A blend of history, mythology, and memoir, Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country is a fascinating meditation on brand new life, natural splendor, and the ancient spirituality and creativity of Erdrich’s native hometown—a long, elemental tradition of storytelling that may be in her blood.

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