![]() ![]() "LaRose," in bookstores on Tuesday, is not at its heart a funny book, but it is a very human book. ![]() A woman browsed the shelves a child laughed in a secluded corner, a mother nursed a baby. It was late in the afternoon, and haunting pipe music wafted through the store. I just don't feel like I've got a book unless there's something funny in it."Įrdrich - slender, soft-spoken, dressed in black - was speaking in the backroom of Birchbark Books, the bookstore she owns in Minneapolis. "It's the hardest thing, writing humor into a book. THERE IS NO HUMOR WHATSOEVER IN THIS MANUSCRIPT.' "I was looking over my notebook a while back, and I had this giant note in the middle of my pages. "Oh, good," Erdrich said, sounding relieved. Louise Erdrich's 15th novel, "LaRose," entwines such weighty themes as war, family, adoption, death, grief, the Indian Child Welfare Act, reservation boarding schools, Indian culture and myth, and justice. ![]()
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