Antelope Woman, Louise Erdrich
Antelope Woman, Louise Erdrich
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Antelope Woman
A Novel

Author: Louise Erdrich

Narrator: Louise Erdrich

Unabridged: 9 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 04/25/2023

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

This updated edition of National Book Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Louise Erdrich’s 1998 novel now features fascinating new content, a new title, and a new foreword by the author—a riveting story that explores tensions between Native American and white cultures.“Audacious and surprising. . . . One of America’s most distinctive fictional voices.”—Boston GlobeWhen Klaus Shawano abducts Sweetheart Calico, the seductive Indian woman who has stolen his heart, and takes her far from her native Montana plains to his own Minneapolis home, he cannot begin to imagine the eventual ramifications his brazen act will entail. Shawano’s mysterious Antelope Woman has utterly mesmerized him—and soon proves to be a bewitching agent of chaos whose effect on others is disturbing and irresistible, as she alters the shape of things around her and the shape of things to come.The Roy and Shawano families have been inextricably intertwined for generations and, unbeknownst to them, the mysterious Antelope Woman is a part of their fierce and haunting history. Antelope Woman ingeniously illuminates how that history affects the contemporary descendants of these families who are the products of two cultures, Ojibwe and white, which sit in uneasy relationship to one another.In this remarkable novel, Erdrich weaves an unforgettable tapestry of ancestry, fate, harrowing tragedy, and redemption that is at once modern and eternal.Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook. 

About Louise Erdrich

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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Carl on May 08, 2012

It’s human nature to want people to like what you like, but when they resist, pointing to reasons they should like it is like explaining a joke. No laughing, no liking. Such it is with my friend and Louise Erdrich. I’m a HUGE fan of Louise. I consider her among the top five living writers in the cou......more

Goodreads review by Bradley on January 08, 2020

I'm working my way through award winners, sight unseen, and this one happens to be one of them. I didn't know what to expect except that it was probably one of a long line of the new breed of Magical Realism. What makes it special? Well, I LOVE the whole Twins theme going on. White beads and black, i......more

Goodreads review by Amy on April 05, 2016

The Antelope Wife combines Native mysticism and legend with the multi-generational stories of the Roy and Shawano families. Linked by one woman, she will bring their destinies full circle. Written in lyrical prose and infused with haunting imagery, the story alternates between grief and acceptance, w......more

Goodreads review by Michele on February 20, 2014

I hoped that I would like this book, but it was too fragmented, disjointed. It had great potential to be a reflective and philosophical journey, but ultimately the points didn't connect... the kidnapped antelope-woman Sweetheart Calico was supposed to be the link that connected all the events and ch......more

Goodreads review by Book Concierge on June 12, 2019

Digital audio read by the author. From the book jacket: “Family stories repeat themselves in patterns and waves, generation to generation, across bloods and time. Once the pattern is set we go on replicating it,” writes Louise Erdrich in The Antelope Wife, her sixth novel. Rooted in the landscape of......more