The reviews five years ago were mixed, but I wondered what it would be like to read this story of the capture and confinement of pregnant women now-post- Roe.Ĭedar is a pregnant twenty-six-year-old woman living in Minneapolis near both her white adoptive parents and her Ojibwe birth mother. In August, while browsing secondhand books, I picked up Louise Erdrich’s Future Home of the Living God (2017), a novel I had skipped, despite my love of her work. It was June 14, 2022, and we were already living post- Roe, in a state that had weeks earlier earned the NPR headline “Oklahoma Governor Signs the Strictest Abortion Ban.” When an antiabortion activist scaled the fifty-story Devon skyscraper in downtown Oklahoma City, I wondered less why someone would take such an outlandish risk and more why someone would think to come to this state, of all states, to make his statement. I LIVE IN Oklahoma, one of the reddest states in these United States. The first thing that happens at the end of the world is that we don’t know what is happening. Louise Erdrich Future Home of the Living God
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