A Reader´s Guide to the Novels of Louise Erdrich

o help readers and scholars, Beidler and Barton have put together genealogies (actual family trees for all characters in Erdrich´s novels), a map showing the settings of her novels, chronologies, an extensive character dictionary that allows readers to look up each character and get an instant history of who the character is and what he/she has done in previous books, a shorter list of minor characters, a bibliography, and an index. What the authors don´t do is try to deconstruct the actual novels. They leave that to the readers as they should. . . . This guide is an ideal supplement for those teaching courses that include Erdrich´s works or a serious reader who wants to find out more about her books.