After writing 15 novels, Louise Erdrich decided it was time to tell the story of her maternal grandfather, Patrick Gourneau. An Ojibwe tribal chairman raised on the Turtle Mountains reservation in North Dakota, Erdrich’s...
More than a storyteller, Louise Erdrich gives voice to Native communities
This novelist explores faith and identity by drawing on her Catholic and Ojibwe roots.
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September 2020
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What secular city?
Lives of faith in the Big Apple are—and always have been—dynamic.
BY PETER FEUERHERD
A baptized mind
In his children’s fiction, C.S. Lewis communicates Christian truth through story.
BY DAVID RUSSELL MOSLEY
Fast for justice
Can one person’s dietary decisions affect the common good?
BY STEPHANIE CLARY
The storyteller
Mining her family’s myths and Native American heritage, novelist Louise Erdrich gives voice to stories from the margins.
AN INTERVIEW WITH LOUISE ERDRICH
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