After writing 15 novels, Louise Erdrich decided it was time to tell the story of her maternal grandfather, Patrick Gourneau. Gourneau gathered a group of local people to fight the bill: The story of their fight forms the plot of Erdrich's latest novel, The Night Watchman (Harper). Many of Erdrich's stories are populated with marginalized or outcast characters who may or may not find redemption or acceptance, from the nun who becomes a priest in The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse (HarperCollins) to the vengeful grifter Romeo in LaRose (Harper). Erdrich grew up Catholic in a small town in North Dakota with a German American father and an Ojibwe mother. [Extracted from the article]
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