Four Souls
A Harper Perennial paperback of Louise Erdrich's 2004 novel, which continues the story of Fleur Pillager from the Love Medicine series as she travels from the reservation to Minneapolis seeking revenge and finding something more complicated. The novel is shorter and more direct than some of Erdrich's later books, with the tight focus of someone who knows exactly where the story is going. The Harper Perennial cover is the standard literary paperback look, neither flashy nor apologetic. Erdrich wrote it as part of a larger project, and it reads best if you know the territory, though it stands alone.Ideal reader: the reader who believes revenge is a legitimate narrative engine, or the Erdrich completist who wants to see Fleur off the reservation.
