![]() ![]() The Minnesota-born, North Dakota-raised author added that prize to an already long list of accolades, including two National Book Critics Circle awards ( Love Medicine, LaRose), a National Book Award ( The Round House), the Library of Congress Award for American Fiction, among others. Her last novel, the Pulitzer-Prize-winning The Night Watchman(2020), about a man fighting the federal government seeking to move tribes off of their land, was also rooted in the familiar: the life of her grandfather, who was the tribal chair at the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa. ![]() ![]() Her 18th novel, The Sentence (Harper), out today, is about a bookstore in Minneapolis haunted by a one-time customer Erdrich owns Birchbark Books in Minneapolis, which features birch trees as part of the decor and a confessional-turned-forgiveness booth. ![]()
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