Four Souls: A Novel [Paperback]

FromNew York Timesbestselling author Louise Erdrich comes a haunting novel that continues the rich and enthralling Ojibwe saga begun in her novelTracks.

After taking her mother’s name, Four Souls, for strength, the strange and compelling Fleur Pillager walks from her Ojibwe reservation to the cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul. She is seeking restitution from and revenge on the lumber baron who has stripped her tribe’s land. But revenge is never simple, and her intentions are complicated by her dangerous compassion for the man who wronged her.

After taking her mother’s name, Four Souls, for strength, the strange, compelling Fleur Pillager walks from her Ojibwe reservation to the cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul. She seeks restitution from and revenge on the lumber baron who has stripped her reservation. But revenge is never simple, and her intentions are complicated by her dangerous compassion for the man who wronged her.

Fleurs story, along with comic subplots involving the narrators, is marked by imagery both poetic and moving. -Library Journal

Vividly evoked &A welcome addition, then, to a uniquely enthralling and important American story. -Kirkus Reviews

Trim, haunting, beautifully sketched...Four Souls stands alone as a trenchant rendering of the costs and causes of love, family, identity, memory and revenge. -Elle

Great originality and charm. -Entertainment Weekly

FOUR SOULS juxtaposes & the ribald and the elegiac. -Atlantic Monthly

Stunning flights of lyricism. -San Francisco Chronicle Book Review

Powerful and haunting. -Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

By turns shocking, heartbreaking, hilarious and bawdy&for Erdrich, and happily for her readers, the people of the Plains continue to offer inexhaustible riches. -