The Antelope Wife
A cavalry soldier rides down a burning Ojibwe village, carries off a dog with a baby lashed to its back, and the debt from that morning runs five generations forward into present-day Minneapolis. A trader abducts a woman who runs with antelope, twin sisters bead patterns that decide who lives, and a bakery, a marriage and a drinking problem carry on regardless. Erdrich's first novel outside the North Dakota cycle, working an urban Ojibwe world instead.
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