The recurrent themes in her fiction are the “ties between people and geographical locations, the importance of community among all living beings, the complexities of individual and cultural identity, and the exigencies of marginalization, dispossession, and cultural survival.” Her fiction, moreover, is ripe with “amily and motherhood, storytelling, healing, environmental issues, and historical consciousness” which connects her work thematically to the expanding web of contemporary Native American Thus, Erdrich usually appends a family tree to her novels to refresh the memory of the reader. Out of sequence or, although readers might have read her earlier works, they scarcely remember who is who in later novels. The readers are bewildered, especially when they pick up her novels Owing to the interconnection between most of Louise Erdrich’s novels,
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