Louise Erdrich 
Antelope Woman [EPUB ebook] 
A Novel

This updated edition of National Book Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Louise Erdrichs 1998 novel now features fascinating new content, a new title, and a new foreword by the authora riveting story that explores tensions between Native American and white cultures.Audacious and surprising. . . . One of Americas most distinctive fictional voices.Boston Globe When Klaus Shawano abducts Sweetheart Calico, the seductive Indian woman who has stolen his heart, and takes her far from her native Montana plains to his own Minneapolis home, he cannot begin to imagine the eventual ramifications his brazen act will entail. Shawanos mysterious Antelope Woman has utterly mesmerized himand soon proves to be a bewitching agent of chaos whose effect on others is disturbing and irresistible, as she alters the shape of things around her and the shape of things to come.The Roy and Shawano families have been inextricably intertwined for generations and, unbeknownst to them, the mysterious Antelope Woman is a part of their fierce and haunting history. Antelope Woman ingeniously illuminates how that history affects the contemporary descendants of these families who are the products of two cultures, Ojibwe and white, which sit in uneasy relationship to one another.In this remarkable novel, Erdrich weaves an unforgettable tapestry of ancestry, fate, harrowing tragedy, and redemption that is at once modern and eternal.