![]() ![]() ![]() Something dire has happened in the world, and it’s affecting all kinds of things, from the food supply to migration patterns to the very nature of human life. This dystopian novel set in the near-future revolves around Cedar Hawk Songmaker, a young woman who is half-Ojibwe by birth but who has been raised by an Anglo couple named Glen and Sera Songmaker. “I start off on tangents.” But she’s articulate, warm and candid as she speaks about her latest book, “Future Home of the Living God” (Harper, $28.99), a complete departure from her previous work. ![]() “This is the problem with phone interviews,” she says, a few minutes into an answer. “It might be affecting the lines.”Įrdrich, the acclaimed novelist whose 2016 “LaRose” won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, likes to maintain clear communication - which is why she prefers to conduct interviews via email. “We’ve got a snowstorm outside,” she says by telephone, because the connection is poor. It’s already snowing in Minnesota, where Louise Erdrich lives, by mid-October. ![]()
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