Description: New York Times best-selling author and National Book Award finalist Louise Erdrich is acclaimed as one of the most important writers in the Native American Renaissance. In The Porcupine Year, Erdrich takes listeners to 1852 Minnesota. Omakayas, a 12-year-old Ojibwe girl, continues to travel west with her family after white settlers take over their homeland. Erdrich's books on Omakayas have been favorably compared to Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books
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Louise Erdrich, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, is a multiaward-winning author of New York Times bestselling fiction, as well as poetry, short stories, and children's books. She has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and has won the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. She has received the Library of Congress Prize in American Fiction, the prestigious PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the World Fantasy Award, and American Academy of Poets Prize, among others.