Tracks
A Novel

Because I loved reading William Faulkner in college, when I discovered in Louise Erdrich a similar depth of voice, honest characters and a consistent imaginative setting, I fell in love with her writing, too. (In the interest of disclosing bias, I grew up in the farming town of Valley Center near se......more

(Don’t say Tracks contains magical realism: a review) Tracks takes place in a time when life is changing for Anishinaabeg: their land is being parcelled and sold, traditional ways of life are beginning to fade as Western religion spreads, children are being sent to residential schools and as white f......more

Two people at opposing poles of a small, fragmentary society narrate this story, yet their accounts agree where they intersect. I've met these women when they were older already. Their tale will not tow the line. Time will spiral, we will float like flowers on a pond. This year's snow is any year's.......more