![]() ![]() A white soldier attacking an Ojibwe village saves an Indian baby he then miraculously nurses with his own milk and raises lovingly as his daughter. Told in mini-chapters, “Father’s Milk” has the wide scope of a surreal novella. ![]() “Anna” concerns a woman who moves in with two brothers, a Jules and Jim scenario with a twist. The more contemporary “Hasta Namaste, Baby” exposes the secret, unspoken compromises of marriage as a man who has hidden his infertility from his wife lives with her betrayal when she becomes pregnant. “Naked Woman Playing Chopin” stands on its own as a moving, erotic depiction of music as love. Sorting out who’s who and keeping track of Erdrich’s generational time frame is never easy, but the chronological order of the stories helps. Erdrich ( The Plague of Doves, 2008, etc.) has created such a complex fictional universe, with mythic characters reappearing in different guises in her numerous novels, that these 36 stories, even those previously unpublished, resonate like favorite melodies.Īll the old favorites are here. ![]()
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