Louise Erdrich’s New Novel: The Mighty Red

Pulitzer Prize winner Louise Erdrich’s latest novel, *The Mighty Red*, a captivating multigenerational tale set in the , starts with a whirlwind proposal. Gary Geist, a wealthy and incredibly lucky football player, asks Kismet Poe, his rebellious Ojibwe classmate, to marry him. This greatly upsets Kismet’s superstitious truck-driver mom Crystal and her nerdy, homeschooled crush Hugo, who would also like to one day make her his bride, if only he could afford a car. As Kismet considers her options, members of her quirky North Dakota community find themselves taking sides. The teenage love triangle highlights the economic gap in the small town where Gary’s parents own the farm that Kismet’s mom, and many others, work on. But in Erdrich’s unconventional love story, it’s the titular river—the site of a shared tragedy—that holds the key to understanding Kismet’s heart.

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