Description: A FINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE FOR FICTIONIn this stunning novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich tells a story of love, natural forces, spiritual yearnings, and the tragic impact of uncontrollable circumstances on ordinary people’s lives.History is a flood. The mighty red . . .In Argus, North Dakota, a collection of people revolve around a fraught wedding. Gary Geist, a terrified young man set to inherit two farms, is desperate to marry Kismet Poe, an impulsive, lapsed Goth who can't read her future but seems to resolve his. Hugo, a gentle red-haired, home-schooled giant, is also in love with Kismet. He’s determined to steal her and is eager to be a home wrecker. Kismet's mother, Crystal, hauls sugar beets for Gary's family, and on her nightly runs, tunes into the darkness of late-night radio, sees visions of guardian angels, and worries for the future, her daughter’s and her own.Human time, deep time, Red River time, the half-life of herbicides and pesticides, and the elegance of time represented in fracking core samples from unimaginable depths, is set against the speed of climate change, the depletion of natural resources, and the sudden economic meltdown of 2008-2009. How much does a dress cost? A used car? A package of cinnamon rolls? Can you see the shape of your soul in the everchanging clouds? Your personal salvation in the giant expanse of sky? These are the questions the people of the Red River Valley of the North wrestle with every day.The Mighty Red is a novel of tender humor, disturbance, and hallucinatory mourning. It is about on-the-job pains and immeasurable satisfactions, a turbulent landscape, and eating the native weeds growing in your backyard. It is about ordinary people who dream, grow up, fall in love, struggle, endure tragedy, carry bitter secrets; men and women both complicated and contradictory, flawed and decent, lonely and hopeful. It is about a starkly beautiful prairie community whose members must cope with devastating consequences as powerful forces upend them. As with every book this great modern master writes, The Mighty Red is about our tattered bond with the earth, and about love in all of its absurdity and splendor.A new novel by Louise Erdrich is a major literary event; gorgeous and heartrending, The Mighty Red is a triumph. Thank you for your business!
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Artist: Erdrich Louise
CD Grading: Mint
Release Title: Mighty Red
Publication Name: Mighty Red
Ex Libris: No
Case Condition: Mint
Narrative Type: Fiction
Original Language: English
Inlay Condition: Mint
Intended Audience: Adults
Inscribed: No
Vintage: No
Personalize: No
Type: Hardback
EAN: 9780063277052
Record Grading: Mint
Unit Type: Unit
ISBN: 9780063277052
Release Year: 2024-10-01
Sleeve Grading: Mint
Era: 2020s
Personalized: No
Movie/TV Title: Mighty Red
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Book Title: Mighty Red : a Novel
Number of Pages: 384 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication Year: 2024
Item Height: 1.1 in
Topic: Native American & Aboriginal, Literary
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 22.4 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Louise Erdrich
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
