Emmaline agrees to the unusual substitution of LaRose for Dusty, hoping it will save both families from succumbing to grief. Emmaline is a member of the tribe Nola is not. Emmaline, Landreaux’s wife, is half-sister to Nola, the mother of the dead boy, Dusty. In LaRose, Erdrich shows how difficult it can be to atone.Įrdrich’s characters have interwoven family trees. The Round House uncovered the tricky nature of revenge. The Plague of Doves examined the long shadow of past injustices. Characters return from Erdrich’s The Plague of Doves and The Round House, including the war-scarred Father Travis, who in his reservation work “had seen how some people would try their best but the worst would still happen.”ĭealing with such unfairness has been the trilogy’s theme. The third novel in a trilogy, LaRose resumes an exploration of the blurred bloodlines of people living in and around Ojibwe tribal land and the nearby fictional town of Pluto. Landreaux, a recovering alcoholic, makes an agonizing attempt at amends by giving the dead boy’s parents his own 5-year-old son, LaRose. While stalking a buck, Landreaux Iron, an Ojibwe man, kills his neighbors’ son in a moment of inattention. An accidental fatal shooting of a 5-year-old boy near the boundary of an Indian reservation in North Dakota opens Louise Erdrich’s new novel, detonating a story of revenge, sacrifice and restitution.
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