Fantastical things, light and dark, take place. There is considerable magical realism on display. Thus her 21st century characters incorporate ancient Ojibwe lore and religion in their lives, just as their 1839 ancestors did, including origin myths.
One of Louise Erdrich's many strengths as a novelist is that central to her work is the distinct hue of her Native American culture. A local good guy of a cleric (carried over from The Round House) struggles with his mission, his sobriety, and his vows. He and Landreaux were friends once, but Romeo suffered physical damage as a result of an adolestent adventure Landreaux led, suffered emotional disappointment as well, and spends much of his waking life plotting his revenge.
Romeo Payat is a person of less than stellar character. Maggie Ravich, who we meet as barely a teen, is a particularly fierce and moving personality. Both the Irons and Raviches have daughters. So I constructed a historical set of LaRoses, and then I worked out the traumas and the difficulties and everything until we came to this LaRose.We follow not only the travails of Landreaux, and LaRose having to cope with his abruptly different family situation, but with Emmaline Iron as she yearns to have her son back, and Peter and Nola Ravich as they grieve for their lost child and try to incorporate his replacement. I really don't know anything about this LaRose, but I know the approximate dates when she lived. I had forgotten, though, that there was a LaRose far back in our family history. The rest of the book really collects the stories, the language, the characters, they collect around the title. I wanted to write something with LaRose, I had the title-I always have the title.
There are looks back to the history of several other characters, with particular focus on their experiences in BIA schools. We see back to 1839, when the first LaRose was a girl, sold by her desperate mother for food. The history which runs in his veins is manifest in kindness and wisdom far beyond his years. One of the brightest colors in LaRose is family history. LaRose Iron is a very special eight-year-old, with a name that goes back generations. Landreaux and his wife, Emmaline, would give their son, LaRose, to the Raviches. Faced with the horror of Dusty Ravich's accidental death, Landeaux, seeking to atone, looks for guidance in tradition, and in a sweat lodge ceremony arrives at a solution. They share and trade with each other, and the families help each other out. We know from the little text that precedes the shooting that Landreaux Iron's family and Peter Ravich's family are close. She draws a core event in strong lines, then brings together a diverse range of textures, shapes and colors, mixing, matching, highlighting, smudging, lightening and darkening to make an amazing picture, more mural than something readily contained inside a frame. Only when he walked forward to investigate and looked down did he understand that he had killed his neighbor's son.Louise Erdritch uses a wide palette. When the buck popped away he realized he'd hit something else-there had been a blur the moment he squeezed the trigger. Landreaux took the shot with fluid confidence. Whe He was extremely adept, had started hunting small game with his grandfather at the age of seven. He was extremely adept, had started hunting small game with his grandfather at the age of seven.
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