The mighty red : a novel / Louise Erdrich.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Erdrich, Louise, author.

Series:

Read with Jenna

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Red River of the North--Fiction.

Red River of the North.

North Dakota--Fiction.

North Dakota.

Mothers and daughters--Fiction.

Mothers and daughters.

Teenagers--Fiction.

Teenagers.

Weddings--Fiction.

Weddings.

Interpersonal relations--Fiction.

Interpersonal relations.

Triangles (Interpersonal relations)--Fiction.

Triangles (Interpersonal relations).

Indians of North America--Fiction.

Indians of North America.

Genre:

Romance fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

372 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024]

Summary:

"In this stunning novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich tells a story of love, natural forces and the tragic impact of big business"-- Provided by publisher.

In this stunning novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning author Louise Erdrich tells a story of love, natural forces, spiritual yearnings, and the tragic impact of uncontrollable circumstances on ordinary people's lives. In Argus, North Dakota, a collection of people revolve around a fraught wedding. Gary Geist, a terrified young man set to inherit two farms, is desperate to marry Kismet Poe, an impulsive, lapsed Goth who can't read her future but seems to resolve his. Hugo, a gentle red-haired, home-schooled giant, is also in love with Kismet. He's determined to steal her and is eager to be a home wrecker. Kismet's mother, Crystal, hauls sugar beets for Gary's family, and on her nightly runs, tunes into the darkness of late-night radio, sees visions of guardian angels, and worries for the future, her daughter's and her own. Human time, deep time, Red River time, the half-life of herbicides and pesticides, and the elegance of time represented in fracking core samples from unimaginable depths, is set against the speed of climate change, the depletion of natural resources, and the sudden economic meltdown of 2008-2009. How much does a dress cost? A used car? A package of cinnamon rolls? Can you see the shape of your soul in the everchanging clouds? Your personal salvation in the giant expanse of sky? These are the questions the people of the Red River Valley of the North wrestle with every day. The Mighty Red is a novel of tender humor, disturbance, and hallucinatory mourning. It is about on-the-job pains and immeasurable satisfactions, a turbulent landscape, and eating the native weeds growing in your backyard. It is about ordinary people who dream, grow up, fall in love, struggle, endure tragedy, carry bitter secrets; men and women both complicated and contradictory, flawed and decent, lonely and hopeful. It is about a starkly beautiful prairie community whose members must cope with devastating consequences as powerful forces upend them. As with every book this great modern master writes, The Mighty Red is about our tattered bond with the earth, and about love in all of its absurdity and splendor. -- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Series title from dust jacket.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Burt fund bookplate.

Other Format:

Online version:

Erdrich, Louise. Mighty red

Online version: Erdrich, Louise. Mighty red

ISBN:

9780063277052

0063277050

9780063419353

0063419351

OCLC:

1417407915