Four Souls (Paperback)
Description
After taking her mother's name, Four Souls, for strength, the strange, compelling Fleur Pillager walks from her Ojibwe reservation to the cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul. She seeks restitution from and revenge on the lumber baron who has stripped her reservation. But revenge is never simple, and her intentions are complicated by her dangerous compassion for the man who wronged her.
This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.
About the Author
Louise Erdrich is the author of thirteen novels, several volumes of poetry, short stories, children's books, and a memoir of early motherhood. Her novel Love Medicine won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and The Plague of Doves was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She lives in Minnesota and is the owner of Birchbark Books, an independent bookstore.
Praise for Four Souls…
“Great originality and charm.”
-Entertainment Weekly
“Fleur’s story, along with comic subplots involving the narrators, is marked by imagery both poetic and moving.”
-Library Journal
“Vividly evoked …A welcome addition, then, to a uniquely enthralling and important American story.”
-Kirkus Reviews
“Powerful and haunting.”
-Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
“FOUR SOULS juxtaposes … the ribald and the elegiac.”
-Atlantic Monthly
“Stunning flights of lyricism.”
-San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
