Fiction. Native American Studies. It takes love, fortitude, and no small amount of humor to survive the sun-starved winters of the Great Plains. In NIGHT TRAIN, Lise Erdrich offers a sharp-humored and powerful primer on life in the small towns and Indian reservations of Minnesota and North Dakota. With striking imagery and insight, her stories play out against backdrops of emergency rooms, supermarket aisles, backwoods parties, family breakfast tables, and sterile, but emotionally fraught offices. As the pressures of daily life collide with the insidiousness of history, the personal struggles and small triumphs of her hardscrabble characters reveal their grace, grit, and determination.

"NIGHT TRAIN is abrasive, lucid, almost cruel but still very engaging. I admired the open mastery of language. It reminded me how wonderfully rejuvenating it can be to read prose of this quality."—Jim Harrison

Author City: Whapeton, ND USA