Letter From the Archive: Louise Erdrich

As a descendant of the Chippewa, the novelist Lewis El Drich is a thinker who donated 21 pieces of work to New Yorkers since 1989. Like Tony Morrison, Erdrich writes about communities and individuals who have suffered from the experience of their ancestors or struggled to escape from the dilemma. Using a simple and easy-to-read essay, her story often unfolds from multiple angles to create a beautiful elliptical story

In "The Shawl" published in 2001, Erdrich produced a wonderful effect using this story style, while recording the abandonment of Anishinaabeg family and the legacy of violence. A young boy 's mother, Anna Quad, fell in love with another man and left him and his father after giving birth to a child. I could not figure out how his mother took his sister and her newborn, and he ran after their carriage. When he returned, he told his father that he saw "gray shape" on the tree next to the road. His father, who fell into panic, ran after the carriage and soon found a torn shield of his daughter. For the first time in a while, he told the boy what happened to him: when the wolf closed the carriage, Anakwad must make an incredible choice to save himself and her newborn baby maybe.

When his father said these words, the boy passed away. What do you think his sister does? What pierced her heart? Does she also have some broken ones in her heart like him? Even so, he knows that this broken place in his mind is not repaired, apart from some awful means. He always saw her mother taking down her baby and hugging her sister in her hips. He saw Aanakwad gently swinging a girl from the side of the carriage. He saw a red line on a brown shawl open. Because he and his father were not watching Aanakwad - he saw the carriage with shadows, wolves, sledrunners disappeared forever and swarmed together enthusiastically together

As the story progressed, we were introduced to the talkers and their families, and a new level of complexity was added to the story. Erdrich reveals the complex ways trauma has echoed over generations. As she wrote in another short story, The Pigeon Plague, it is often the dead - or their memory - they "provide food for life".

"The Shawl" is completely available in our archive. If you would like to learn more about Louise Erdrich please unlock "Love Snares" (2003) and "The Doves of the Grave" (2004).

Louise Erdrich (born June 7, 1954, Karen Louise Erdrich) is an American writer, writer, novel, poetry, and children's book that featured the role and scenes of Native Americans. She is a registered member of the Chippewa Indian Turtle Mountain Band, an Annasinab family (also known as Ojibwa and Chippewa) recognized by the Commonwealth. Erdrich is widely acclaimed as one of the most important writers in the second wave of the Native American Renaissance. In 2009, her novel "Pigmentary Pigeon" was nominated for the Pulitzer Novel Prize and received the Anis Field - Wolf Book Award. In November 2012, she received the National Novel Prize for her novel "Round House". She received the American Novel Library Award at the National Book Review Festival in September 2015. She got married to the writer Michael Doris, and the two worked together to complete many pieces.

Louise Erdrich is the author of 12 novels and poetry, books for children and memoirs of early maternity era. Her first novel "Love Medicine" won the National Book Review Award. The latest report on the miracle of Little No Horse is the finalist of the National Book Awards. Her recently published novel "New York Times best selling plague" won the best award from Philipp Ross, he wrote: "The imagination of Louis Ahrich reached its peak -" Hatpest is a dazzling masterpiece of her is. "Louis Erdrich lives in her daughter and Minnesota, and is the owner of an independent small bookstore Birchbark Books.

In a comment against Margaret Noori 's "The Grague of Doves" by Louise Erdrich, she first talked about the role of why this plan was requested. What was said when kidnapping his wife. He said that this is the "trembling of possibility" that I felt when opportunities appeared (12). Noori expanded this "trembling" by "running through the life of each character in Louise Erdrich's twelfth novel, in which she continues to explore human mind and thought" (12 ). The plague is filled with Epiphany. Both are due to harsh harshness and sophisticated harmony. Characters and events intertwine and create a narrator that Antone Bazil Coutts finally learned. "A powerful moment of real knowledge, we have to leave information in our daily lives ... broken imagination, unsatisfied desires, fear and surprisingly happy" (12)