A startling portrait of a young woman fighting for her life and her unborn child against oppressive forces that manifest in the wake of a cataclysmic event

Heartfelt and bittersweet

indigenous wisdom

“A portrait of an ‘iconic’ marriage on its way to dissolution…Erdrich’s unbridled urgency yields startlingly original phrasing as well as flashes of blinding lucidity

A bold and brilliant new indigenous voice in contemporary literature makes her American debut with this kinetic

Bead on an Anthill: A Lakota Childhood Lakota A startling portrait of aBead on an Anthill is the story of a Lakota girl's experiences growing up in Nebraska and on the Pine Ridge Reservation in the 1960s and 1970s. Raised in a home without books, Delphine Red Shirt relied on family and friends as her "books" and wove their stories into her own. Like her ancestors, she felt a powerful connection to the openness of the Plains. She participated in coming of age ceremonies and learned the special rules for stringing beads