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From Monsters and Critics.com Books News The Plague of Doves is the title to Louise Erdrich’s latest novel. The NYT has said, “As she’s done so many times before, Ms. Erdrich uses several characters to narrate alternating chapters (the same technique pioneered by Faulkner in “As I Lay Dying”), giving us a choral story that unfolds from multiple perspectives. Only gradually are the relationships between these characters and their ancestors revealed, resulting in an elliptical, jigsaw puzzle of a narrative that italicizes the hold that time past exerts over time present, and the startling changes that have swept through the reservation and the small towns nearby in the space of a couple of generations.” Racism plays an important role in this latest book, and according to Publishers Weekly, “Erdrich plays individual narratives off one another, dropping apparently insignificant clues that build to head-slapping revelations as fates intertwine and the person responsible for the 1911 killing is identified.” This is Erdrich's 13th novel, and Harper is the publisher. The NYT has not only a review but a chapter excerpt here.
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