future home of the living god by louise erdrich

Maybe I’m writing the biological equivalent of our present political mess.Īnd of course it feels like things are going backward again.Ītwood: Your characters are faced with a very unusual situation: Evolution is moving backward. I picked up Future Home of the Living God again, after the 2016 election, because I needed Cedar. But we have a tendency to regress after we move forward. I like remembering when our leaders made us look good.

We had a thoughtful, elegant, and optimistic family in the White House. With Obama in Washington, we seemed to have a chance to move forward-clean energy, the restoration of women’s rights, a progressive Supreme Court. Well, really it was the story of a boy trying to save his mother. Then, in 2008, I transferred my energy to The Round House, which was a novel about crimes of sexual violence on the reservation. When did I put the book away? First, I had to finish a book called The Plague of Doves. I guess you could say it felt like things were going backward, devolving on every level. Oh, and I was pregnant! My youngest daughter was born in 2001, so my identification with Cedar was total. Also crucial for me was that we lost on climate change there was a real chance to keep the lid on carbon back then. Sure enough, he began by reinstating the global gag rule, which cuts international funding for contraceptives if abortion is mentioned. Bush as a disaster for reproductive rights.

Louise Erdrich: I started Future Home of the Living God sometime after the 2000 U.S.

Why did you stop writing it? And what made you resurrect it? However, just recently you took it out of the drawer and finished it, in what must have been a blue-hot blaze of energy. Margaret Atwood: Louise, you were writing away at Future Home of the Living God-starring Cedar, your pregnant heroine-but then you put it in a drawer. Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to play

Future home of the living god by louise erdrich