LaRose

Author(s): Louise Erdrich

General Fiction

North Dakota, 1999.  Landreaux Iron accidentally shoots and kills five-year-old Dusty Ravich, the son of his neighbors. The two families have always been close; Dusty was best friends with Landreaux's son LaRose. Horrified, Landreaux turns to tradition--prayer in an Ojibwe sweat lodge--for guidance, and finds a way forward. Following an ancient means of atonement, he and his wife will give LaRose to the grieving Ravich family. "Our son will be your son now," they say.


As the years pass, LaRose becomes the linchpin linking the Irons and the Raviches. But when a vengeful man with a grudge against Landreaux begins hurling accusations of a cover-up the day Dusty died, he threatens the tenuous peace that has kept these two fragile families whole.


Inspiring and affecting, LaRose is an unforgettable, dazzling tour de force from one of America's most distinguished literary masters.

After a tragic accident, two families living in North Dakota follow an ancient act of atonement with roots in Native American culture. Utterly gripping, this story with its cast of tough and unusual characters, tells of the healing powers of a long line La Roses. I absolutely loved this haunting tale!  Molly


Product Information

Long-listed for Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction 2017.

Louise Erdrich is the author of fifteen novels as well as volumes of poetry, children's books, short stories, and a memoir of early motherhood. Her novel The Round House won the National Book Award for Fiction. The Plague of Doves won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and her debut novel, Love Medicine, was the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Erdrich has received the Library of Congress Prize in American Fiction, the prestigious PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. She lives in Minnesota with her daughters and is the owner of Birchbark Books, a small independent bookstore.

General Fields

  • : 9781472151858
  • : Little, Brown Book Group Limited
  • : Corsair
  • : 0.356
  • : May 2016
  • : United Kingdom
  • : April 2017
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : 384
  • : 813.6
  • : English
  • : 1
  • : Paperback
  • : Louise Erdrich