As both families grapple with this emotional arrangement, Erdrich braids the stories of a Catholic priest longing for the love of a married woman, a drug addict intent on avenging the man who cost him his happiness, and the Iron family’s ancestry.Įrdrich is a commanding storyteller. Landreaux pleads with his wife Emmaline, Nola’s half-sister, to abide by an old Ojibwe custom by tradition, Landreaux and Emmaline offer their five-year-old son LaRose to Peter and Nola to love and to raise as their own. Distraught by his unintentional role in the boy’s death, Landreaux is determined to bring justice for grieving parents Peter and Nola. On an Ojibwe reservation in rural North Dakota, Landreaux Iron accidentally kills his five-year-old half-nephew while hunting. Native Americans are disappointingly underrepresented in literature however Louise Erdrich once again gives voice to Native Americans in her newest novel LaRose.
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