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Night Train
Stories by Lise Erdrich
In her first collection of stories, Lise Erdrich offers a sharp-humored and powerful glimpse into rural communities and contemporary American Indian life and culture. Largely set in the small towns and reservations of northwestern Minnesota and western North Dakota, her lightning-quick tales—some no more than a page long—capture the very moment when the pressures of daily life collide with the insidiousness of history.
Against backdrops of emergency rooms, supermarket aisles, backwoods parties, family breakfast tables, booze-soaked taverns, and sterile but emotionally fraught offices, Erdrich’s stories reveal the personal struggle and small triumphs of people facing the absurdities of bureaucracy, cycles of poverty and addiction, and out-sized notions of Indian legends and culture. |