Bibliograph

Future home of the living god, a novel, Louise Erdrich

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Future home of the living god, a novel, Louise Erdrich

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Future home of the living god

Oclc number

972383179

Responsibility statement

Louise Erdrich

Sub title

a novel

Summary

A tale set in a world of reversing evolution and a growing police state follows pregnant thirty-two-year-old Cedar Hawk Songmaker, who investigates her biological family while awaiting the birth of a child who may emerge as a member of a primitive human speciesEvolution has reversed itself: woman after woman gives birth to infants that appear to be primitive species of humans. For Cedar Hawk Songmaker, this change is profound and deeply personal: she is four months pregnant. As society begins to disintegrate, Cedar first feels compelled to find her birth mother, Mary Potts, an Ojibwe living on the reservation. There are rumors of martial law, and rewards for those who turn pregnant women in. It will take all Cedar has to keep her baby safe

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