

The Antelope Wife
Author: Louise Erdrich
Narrator: Louise Erdrich
Abridged: 6 hr 26 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Harper Audio
Published: 12/07/2004
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
Author: Louise Erdrich
Narrator: Louise Erdrich
Abridged: 6 hr 26 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Harper Audio
Published: 12/07/2004
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
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.
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
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
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
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
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