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The Antelope Wife extends the branches of the families who populate Louise Erdrich's earlier novels, and once again, her unsentimental, unsparing writing captures the Native American sense of despair, magic, and humor. Rooted in myth and set in contemporary Minneapolis, this poetic and haunting story spans a century, at the center of which is a mysterious and graceful woman known as the Antelope Wife. Elusive, silent, and bearing a mystical link to nature, she embodies a complicated quest for love and survival that impacts lives in unpredictable ways. Her tale is an unpredictable ways. Her tale is an unforgettable tapestry of ancestry, fate, harrowing tragedy, and redemption, that seems at once modern and eternal.

"This is realism at its most magical, in a novel as satisfying as any Erdrich has written."

Kirkus, 02/15/1998

"The point is not that Ms. Erdrich's fiction, like that of many writers, mirrors some of her own experiences; the point is that 'The Antelope Wife' stands as one of her most powerful and fully imagined novels yet. Though 'The Antelope Wife' is marred by occasional patches of overwriting, the book marks a happy return to the elliptical, dreamlike storytelling of Ms. Erdrich's earliest novels....Ms. Erdrich has returned to doing what she does best: using multiple viewpoints and strange, surreal tales within tales to conjure up a family's legacy of love, duty and guilt....She has given us a fiercely imagined tale of love and loss, a story that manages to transform tragedy into comic redemption, sorrow into heroic survival. She has given us a wonderfully sad, funny and affecting novel."

Michiko Kakutani, New York Times, 03/24/1998

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