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Four Souls
by Louise Erdrich
This is such a wild book! I assign Erdrich's novel TRACKS in my Postcolonial Women's Novels course, and this is the sequel. You don't need to read TRACKS first, but there are some lovely continuing details that resonate so much more deeply if you've read it.
FOUR SOULS picks up the moment TRACKS left off by following Fleur, who seeks to murder the man who logged her land (this isn't a spoiler -- you know this on the first page). What you also know on the first page (from the family tree) is that she instead somehow ends up marrying him. What?!?! The plot is so good all the way through, and I couldn't put it down. Erdrich does an amazing job at exploring the complexities of love, tradition, identity and power during this era of reservations, broken treaties, and industrialization.
FOUR SOULS picks up the moment TRACKS left off by following Fleur, who seeks to murder the man who logged her land (this isn't a spoiler -- you know this on the first page). What you also know on the first page (from the family tree) is that she instead somehow ends up marrying him. What?!?! The plot is so good all the way through, and I couldn't put it down. Erdrich does an amazing job at exploring the complexities of love, tradition, identity and power during this era of reservations, broken treaties, and industrialization.