RaveThe Guardian"Cedar narrates the novel in a diary intended for her child, ‘a record and an inquiry into the strangeness of things.’ Her tone shifts between girlish self-absorption, excitement at the forthcoming birth, irritation with her parents and increasing terror at the jeopardy she finds herself in … Erdrich explores magical and religious realities in a contemporary, political world … Erdrich is a prolific novelist, a star of North American literature who should be better known in the UK. Her storytelling and political insight make Future Home of the Living God a new classic of the genre. It is a horribly plausible novel for our times.
