A review by jrosenstein
The Antelope Wife by Louise Erdrich

4.0

The Antelope Wife turned out to be a surprisingly good book to read during the pandemic. It is not escapist, very far from it, but it is transportive. Erdrich builds her own world that hovers somewhere between reality and fantasy, where everything is heightened and every step of an ordinary life feels mythic and momentous. Maybe that's the truly beautiful thing about her writing. She writes about ordinary people as if they were saints or legends, yet with a deep understanding that we're all just flawed humans muddling our way through, hoping that there is some kind of design to our pain.