The Story
From Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich, a captivating collection of short stories
It was as though I was chosen--marked out by the python's kiss for wisdom or maybe sorrow. Or perhaps, I think now, a sense of the ridiculous in extremes of experience. Also, I hoped for a long life.
Written over the past two decades, Louise Erdrich's magnificent story collection features a range of characters--a tribal newsletter editor whose son tells her a story that nothing in her experience can encompass, immigrant farmers whose tenuous hold on the earth, and sanity, is challenged, and ordinary people, bird lovers, artists, grade-school teachers, and romantics. A girl decides to spend her life with a stone. A man is confronted with a folk-singing thief. A woman enters a corporately owned afterlife to seek revenge on her father.
Accompanied by specially commissioned artwork by Aza Erdrich Abe--an intimate and revelatory creative collaboration between mother and daughter--these stories offer an opporÂtunity to celebrate the wisdom and brilliant, wide-ranging imagination of one of America's most important writers.
Author: Louise Erdrich
Publisher: Harper
Published: 03/24/2026
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 9.26h x 6.35w x 0.85d
ISBN: 9780063375000
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/12/2026
Kirkus Reviews 01/15/2026
Booklist 01/01/2026
Shelf Awareness 01/01/0001
Library Journal 01/01/2026 pg. 58
About the Author
Erdrich, Louise: -
Louise Erdrich, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, is the award-winning author of many novels as well as volumes of poetry, children's books, and a memoir of early motherhood. Erdrich lives in Minnesota with her daughters and is the owner of Birchbark Books, a small independent bookstore.
Description
From Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich, a captivating collection of short stories
It was as though I was chosen--marked out by the python's kiss for wisdom or maybe sorrow. Or perhaps, I think now, a sense of the ridiculous in extremes of experience. Also, I hoped for a long life.
Written over the past two decades, Louise Erdrich's magnificent story collection features a range of characters--a tribal newsletter editor whose son tells her a story that nothing in her experience can encompass, immigrant farmers whose tenuous hold on the earth, and sanity, is challenged, and ordinary people, bird lovers, artists, grade-school teachers, and romantics. A girl decides to spend her life with a stone. A man is confronted with a folk-singing thief. A woman enters a corporately owned afterlife to seek revenge on her father.
Accompanied by specially commissioned artwork by Aza Erdrich Abe--an intimate and revelatory creative collaboration between mother and daughter--these stories offer an opporÂtunity to celebrate the wisdom and brilliant, wide-ranging imagination of one of America's most important writers.
Author: Louise Erdrich
Publisher: Harper
Published: 03/24/2026
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 9.26h x 6.35w x 0.85d
ISBN: 9780063375000
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/12/2026
Kirkus Reviews 01/15/2026
Booklist 01/01/2026
Shelf Awareness 01/01/0001
Library Journal 01/01/2026 pg. 58
About the Author
Erdrich, Louise: -
Louise Erdrich, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, is the award-winning author of many novels as well as volumes of poetry, children's books, and a memoir of early motherhood. Erdrich lives in Minnesota with her daughters and is the owner of Birchbark Books, a small independent bookstore.
