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Tracks is a novel by Louise Erdrich, published in 1988. It is the third in a tetralogy of novels beginning with Love Medicine that explores the interrelated lives of four Anishinaabe families living on an Indian reservation near the fictional town of Argus, North Dakota.
Erdrich reportedly developed rules for when Agnes would react as her female self and when she would react as Father Damien, [9] and this shifting happens continually throughout the work. Multiple times throughout the novel, when the question of gender identity arises, Agnes/Damien simply says that s/he is a priest, eliminating the binary ...
Love Medicine is Louise Erdrich's debut novel, first published in 1984 by Holt. Erdrich revised and expanded the novel in subsequent 1993 and 2009 editions. The book follows the lives of five interconnected Ojibwe families living on fictional reservations in Minnesota and North Dakota. The collection of short stories in the book spans six ...
Karen Louise Erdrich (/ ˈ ɜːr d r ɪ k / ER-drik; [2] born June 7, 1954) [3] is a Native American author of novels, poetry, and children's books featuring Native American characters and settings. She is an enrolled citizen of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians of North Dakota , a federally recognized Ojibwe people .
After returning to the United States in 1981, he married Louise Erdrich, [4] a writer of Anishinaabe, German-American, and Métis descent. They had met 10 years earlier while he was teaching at Dartmouth and she was a student. [6] During his sabbatical in New Zealand, Dorris and Erdrich had begun corresponding regularly by mail. [5]
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The first edition of Four Souls was first published in 2004. [1] Erdrich's original intentions had been to place Fleur's story in an extended revised version of Tracks, but she eventually decided to write Four Souls instead, giving an entire novel to Fleur's journey and leaving the plot of Tracks as is. [1]
Because SparkNotes provides study guides for literature that include chapter summaries, many teachers see the website as a cheating tool. [7] These teachers argue that students can use SparkNotes as a replacement for actually completing reading assignments with the original material, [8] [9] [10] or to cheat during tests using cell phones with Internet access.