Tapestry | Louise Erdrich

Louise Erdrich

The Big Cat

Featured in The New Yorker

The women in my wife’s family all snored, and when we visited for the holidays every winter I got no sleep.


Beauty Stolen From Another World

Featured in Fifty-two Stories

While browsing through the library stacks at University College in London, I was approached by a handsome Eurasian doctor who pretended to be interested in the book I was skimming


Sister Godzilla

Featured in The Atlantic

The door banged shut, and then the children were alone with their sixth-grade teacher.


Satan: Hijacker of a Planet

Featured in The Atlantic

ON the outskirts of a small town in the West, on an afternoon when rain was promised, we sat upon the deck of our new subdivision ranchette and watched the sky pitch over Hungry Horse.


Matchimanito

Featured in The Atlantic

We started dying before the snow, and, like the snow, we continued to fall.


Destiny

Featured in The Atlantic

I'm not going anywhere they put the damn radishes in Jell-O," says my friend and employee, Celestine Duval, when I mention visiting her son, Norris.


Saint Marie

Featured in The Atlantic

So when I went there, I knew the dark fish must rise. Plumes of radiance had been soldered on me.


The Flower

Featured in The Guardian

Outside an isolated Ojibwe country trading post in the year 1839, Mink was making an incessant racket.


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