Four Souls - by Louise Erdrich (Paperback)

About the Book

In the world of interconnected novels, this story is closely linked to "Tracks." The tale elaborates the intricate story of life on a reservation peopled by saints and false saints, heroes and sinners, clever fools and tenacious women.

Book Synopsis

From New York Times bestselling author Louise Erdrich comes a haunting novel that continues the rich and enthralling Ojibwe saga begun in her novel Tracks.

After taking her mother's name, Four Souls, for strength, the strange and compelling Fleur Pillager walks from her Ojibwe reservation to the cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul. She is seeking restitution from and revenge on the lumber baron who has stripped her tribe's land. But revenge is never simple, and her intentions are complicated by her dangerous compassion for the man who wronged her.

From the Back Cover

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.

Review Quotes

"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
"Trim, haunting, beautifully sketched...Four Souls stands alone as a trenchant rendering of the costs and causes of love, family, identity, memory and revenge." - Elle
"Great originality and charm." - Entertainment Weekly
"FOUR SOULS juxtaposes ... the ribald and the elegiac." - Atlantic Monthly
"Stunning flights of lyricism." - San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
"Powerful and haunting." - Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
"By turns shocking, heartbreaking, hilarious and bawdy...for Erdrich, and happily for her readers, the people of the Plains continue to offer inexhaustible riches." - Chicago Tribune
"Full of satisfying yet unexpected twists...Four Souls begins with clean, spare prose but finishes in gorgeous incantations and poetry." - New York Times Book Review
"Deeply moving...through a steady accumulation of beautiful, often funny books set around an Ojibwe reservation, she's created the most compelling literary landscape since Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County." - Christian Science Monitor