LaRose

Resource Information

The work LaRose represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Thunder Bay Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

LaRose

Statement of responsibility

Louise Erdrich

Creator

• Erdrich, Louise

Subject

• Children -- Death -- Fiction
• Hunting accidents -- Fiction
• Indian families -- Fiction
• Atonement -- Fiction
• North Dakota -- Fiction
• Ojibwa Indians -- North Dakota -- Fiction
• Indigenous Collection

Genre

• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

North Dakota, late summer, 1999. Landreaux Iron stalks a deer along the edge of the property bordering his own. He shoots with easy confidence - but when the buck springs away, Landreaux realizes he's hit something else, a blur he saw as he squeezed the trigger. When he staggers closer, he realizes he has killed his neighbor's five-year-old son, Dusty Ravich. The youngest child of his friend and neighbor, Peter Ravich, Dusty was best friends with Landreaux's five-year-old son, LaRose. The two families have always been close, sharing food, clothing, and rides into town; their children played together despite going to different schools; and Landreaux's wife, Emmaline, is half-sister to Dusty's mother, Nola. Horrified at what he's done, the recovered alcoholic turns to an Ojibwe tribe tradition - the sweat lodge - for guidance, and finds a way forward. Following an ancient means of retribution, he and Emmaline will give LaRose to the grieving Peter and Nola. "Our son will be your son now," they tell them

Cataloging source

CaOW

Index

no index present

Literary form

fiction