The Mighty Red A Novel
The Mighty Red, a novel by Louise Erdrich, is set to be published by HarperCollins Publishers in October 2024. This large print edition spans 592 pages and is presented in English. The narrative unfolds in a small prairie community in the Red River Valley of North Dakota, where the lives of several characters intertwine around a wedding filled with desire, jealousy, and uncertainty.
Readers will encounter a rich tapestry of relationships and emotional struggles as the story explores themes of love, community, and the impact of uncontrollable circumstances. The characters, including Gary Geist, Kismet Poe, and her mother Crystal, navigate their dreams and challenges against the backdrop of significant societal issues such as climate change and economic turmoil. The Mighty Red delves into the complexities of human experience, highlighting the connections between personal lives and broader environmental concerns.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK * LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION
A Best Book of the Year: New York Times, The New Yorker, Time, Kirkus, Harper’s Bazaar
“A novel set in a small prairie community. . . that somehow also captures the world.” — Parade
In this stunning novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich tells a story of love, natural forces, spiritual yearnings, and the tragic impact of uncontrollable circumstances on ordinary people’s lives.
In the Red River Valley of North Dakota, several lives revolve around a wedding fraught with desire, jealousy, and uncertainty. Gary Geist, a terrified young man set to inherit two farms, is desperate to marry Kismet Poe, an impulsive, lapsed goth who can’t read her own future but will settle for fulfilling his. Her best friend, Hugo, a gentle, red-haired, homeschooled giant, also loves Kismet and is determined to steal her away and build a life together. Kismet’s mother, Crystal, drives a truck for Gary’s family, and on her nightly runs, tunes in to the darkness of late-night radio, experiences visions of guardian angels, and worries about what’s to come, for her daughter and herself.
The Mighty Red is Louise Erdrich at her consummate best. A novel of tender humor, disquietude, yearning, community, and family, it is about ordinary people who dream, grow up, fall in love, struggle, endure tragedy, carry bitter secrets; men and women both complicated and contradictory, flawed and decent, lonely and hopeful. Human time, deep time, Red River time, and geological time are explored alongside the impact of crises in our own time–climate change, the depletion of natural resources, the economic meltdown of 2008. It is a story about our tattered bond with the earth, and about love in all of its absurdity and splendor.
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