LaRose : a novel
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- ISBN: 9780062277039 (softcover)
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Physical Description:
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373, 16 pages ; 21 cm - Edition: First Harper Perennial edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Harper Perennial, 2017.
- Copyright: ©2016
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | Two houses 1999-2000 -- Take it all 1967-1979 -- Wolfred & LaRose -- 1,000 kills 2002-2003 -- The gathering. |
Awards Note: | National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, 2016 |
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Topic Heading: | Indigenous. First Nations. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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The Pas Campus Library | PS 3555 .R42 L36 2017 (Text) | 58500000808980 | Stacks | Volume hold | In process | - |
Summary:
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.