Louise Erdrich: LaRose, Part I

Bookworm

KCRW

Arts

4.5 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In Louise Erdrich's LaRose, a terrible tragedy forces two families to resort to a form of traditional "restorative justice" in which one son must be given to replace the loss of another. Erdrich talks about this act as an attempt at restoring balance in a tight knit community where healing can take generations.

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0:10.0	Part of poetry is learning how to speak.
0:14.0	Chili Billy.
0:15.0	I am also a horse.
0:17.0	I really value my life, even though I know it's debatable whether I'm even really alive.
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0:35.1	Boots.
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1:01.2	Today I'm really thrilled to have as my guest, Louise Erdrich, particularly because most of the time,
1:09.6	the people at Harper managed to convince me to let Louise talk to me by phone.
1:18.6	She's one of maybe two writers who I'm willing to do a phone interview with.
1:23.2	The other is Tony Morrison.
1:25.4	Oh, really?
1:26.5	I didn't know.
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