The Game of Silence, Louise Erdrich
The Game of Silence, Louise Erdrich
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The Game of Silence

Author: Louise Erdrich

Narrator: Anna Fields

Unabridged:

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 07/05/2005

Synopsis

Winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, The Game of Silence is the second novel in the critically acclaimed Birchbark House series by New York Times bestselling author Louise Erdrich.Her name is Omakayas, or Little Frog, because her first step was a hop, and she lives on an island in Lake Superior. One day in 1850, Omakayas’s island is visited by a group of mysterious people. From them, she learns that the chimookomanag, or white people, want Omakayas and her people to leave their island and move farther west.That day, Omakayas realizes that something so valuable, so important that she never knew she had it in the first place, could be in danger: Her way of life. Her home.The Birchbark House Series is the story of one Ojibwe family’s journey through one hundred years in America. The New York Times Book Review raved about The Game of Silence: “Erdrich has created a world, fictional but real: absorbing, funny, serious and convincingly human.”

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 Book Concierge on October 30, 2019

Digital audiobook performed by Anna Fields. Book two in the Birchbark House series which is about an Ojibwa tribe’s life on their island in Lake Superior in the mid-19th century. Omakayas is the young girl who narrates this book, which chronicles a year on the island that is today known as Madeline I......more

Goodreads review by Kilian on April 23, 2017

I didn't realize that this is a children's book. I enjoyed it as an adult and was sorry when it ended. The illustrations did not display well on my Kindle, but aside from this, the story was highly enjoyable. A young girl's memories of hard times for her tribe form the heart of her story. Happy in h......more

Goodreads review by kaity on January 21, 2021

Reading this series with my nine-year-old is a great joy. The Spanglish of our home is now peppered with Ojibwe language.......more

Goodreads review by Crizzle on July 22, 2019

2nd book in the Birchbark series my 11 year old daughter and I are reading (and loving). This one was as sweet and emotional, with heart ache but not the same heartbreak as the first. The author’s illustrations were just as soft and simple. Again, a must-read for all Little House on the Prairie fans......more

Goodreads review by Gina on April 09, 2025

This was the second book in The Birchbark House series and we enjoyed it very much. Omakayas is starting to grow up and come into her own power with her dreams and visions of the future. Her people are in danger of being moved from their homes, and you dive into more of her grandmother’s stories and......more

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