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001 275AEA5E297D11E7A3F22DCFDAD10320
003 SILO
005 20170425010430
008 170419s2017    nyu           000 1 eng  
020    $a 0062277030
020    $a 9780062277039
035    $a (OCoLC)982944093
040    $a FWA $c FWA $d FWA $d BKL $d SILO
100 1  $a Erdrich, Louise, $e author.
245 10 $a LaRose : $b a novel / $c Louise Erdrich.
264  1 $a New York, NY : $b Harper Perennial, $c 2017.
300    $a 373 pages ; $c 21 cm.
505 0  $a Two houses (1999-2000) -- Take it all (1967-1970) -- Wolfred & LaRose -- 1,000 Kills (2002-2003) -- The gathering.
520    $a North Dakota, late summer, 1999. Landreaux Iron stalks a deer along the edge of the property bordering his own. He shoots with easy confidence -- but when the buck springs away, Landreaux realizes he's hit something else, a blur he saw as he squeezed the trigger. When he staggers closer, he realizes he has killed his neighbor's five-year-old son, Dusty Ravich. The youngest child of his friend and neighbor, Peter Ravich, Dusty was best friends with Landreaux's five-year-old son, LaRose. The two families have always been close, sharing food, clothing, and rides into town; their children played together despite going to different schools; and Landreaux's wife, Emmaline, is half sister to Dusty's mother, Nola. Horrified at what he's done, the recovered alcoholic turns to an Ojibwe tribe tradition -- the sweat lodge -- for guidance, and finds a way forward. Following an ancient means of retribution, he and Emmaline will give LaRose to the grieving Peter and Nola. "Our son will be your son now," they tell them. LaRose is quickly absorbed into his new family. Plagued by thoughts of suicide, Nola dotes on him, keeping her darkness at bay. His fierce, rebellious new "sister," Maggie, welcomes him as a co-conspirator who can ease her volatile mother's terrifying moods. Gradually he's allowed shared visits with his birth family, whose sorrow mirrors the Raviches' own. As the years pass, LaRose becomes the linchpin linking the Irons and the Raviches, and eventually their mutual pain begins to heal. But when a vengeful man with a long-standing grudge against Landreaux begins raising trouble, hurling accusations of a cover-up the day Dusty died, he threatens the tenuous peace that has kept these two fragile families whole.
650  0 $a Ojibwa Indians $x Social life and customs $v Fiction.
650  0 $a Ojibwa Indians $z North Dakota $v Fiction.
650  0 $a Hunting accidents $v Fiction.
650  0 $a Children $x Death $v Fiction.
650  0 $a Indian families $v Fiction.
650  0 $a Atonement $v Fiction.
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