A review by dillarhonda
Tracks by Louise Erdrich

Way up in North Dakota, the surviving members of the indigenous peoples are fighting to survive the winter, to find love, and to cling to the old ways. Louise Erdrich’s Tracks, set in the early twentieth-century, delicately explores the life and death struggles of one extended family as they come together and fall apart. The border between the world of the living and that of the dead is perilously thin and real magic stalks the edges of the land. A young woman seems to bring down terrible storms on the heads of those who have wronged her, an old man telepathically guides his young nephew to a moose, a monster lives at the heart of the lake. Erdrich’s occasionally dreamlike prose flittingly depicts joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain, what it means to teeter on the edge of starvation and then what it is to feast.