Even when hard to follow, however, this web of stories keeps its theme vividly in focus: the magical haunting that reminds the various generations of the families of their basic identity.
Illegitimacy, alcoholism, prison, and aborted dreams of something better mark both clans and the fluidity of exchange between them is echoed by poet Erdrich's loose, time-shifting approach-an oblique sort of narration that sometimes makes it difficult to remember who's who among the characters. Called a novel, Erdrich's book of powerful stories interlocks the lives of two Chippewa families in North Dakota, the Kashpaws and the Lamartines (though some are Morrisseys too, and Nanapushes)-a tribal chronicle of defeat that ranges from 1934 to the present.
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