![]() ![]() Families are often made up of blood relatives, non-blood associations, adoptees, ghosts/spectres, and people who came around one day and never left, as well as absentee relations. ![]() One of the Erdrich’s common ideas is an understanding of blended families. There’s real genius without dipping too much into cleverness. It almost never feels like there’s an extra word on the page. But there is also an economy to her style. ![]() When I say form instead of flourish, I mean that there is depth and richness to her writing, complexity does come at times in complicated sentence structures, and she’s putting careful touches on each clause. It focuses more so on form and effect than on flourish, so it would be right, then, to link her in some ways to Faulkner and Morrison. ![]() Erdrich’s writing is direct, competent, and complex. For whatever reason, for this time in my life, I have clicked with her writing. In this previous year, I have read seven of her novels and look to read the remaining seven this year. I went from being suspect of her to reading as much of her stuff as I could stomach to sitting up the morning of the Nobel announcement having convinced myself she was about to win. 2016 could have easily been my year of Louise Erdrich. ![]()
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