A review by black_girl_reading
The Antelope Wife by Louise Erdrich

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

What can you even say about Louise Erdrich? She is the author whose work I long to know best, to savour most, and whose canon I dread to finish, because what will be left is a gulf in intimate, human, complex stories about all that is and all that will ever be. Antelope Woman, a story about a kidnapping, about a genocide, about loving again, and about failing harder to avoid accountability, this book had horror, humour, and life. A braided story of intergenerational survival, of quirks and kinks, and of messy abundant life, I can’t talk Erdrich in the way Erdrich deserves. She must be read. Read her.