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2020/2021 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series

Inprint Louise Erdrich Reading

Monday March 9, 2020 7:30 pm
General admission tickets are sold out

Where

Alley Theatre
615 Texas Avenue
Houston, TX 77002
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General admission tickets for this reading are now sold out. At 7:30 pm on the night of the reading, any unclaimed seats will be released and rush tickets will be available for $5. Ticket availability will be based on the number of people that have purchased advanced tickets and do not show up for the reading. 

Reading followed by an on-stage interview – conducted by American Book Award winner and UH Creative Writing Program faculty member Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.
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LOUISE ERDRICH is one of the most revered novelists of our time. Influenced by a community of storytellers and rooted in Ojibwe myths and legends, Erdrich – author of 17 novels, and more than 30 books in all, including poetry, children’s books, short stories, and a memoir of early motherhood – has “remained true to her Native ancestors’ mythic and artistic visions while writing fiction that candidly explores the cultural issues facing modern-day Native Americans and mixed heritage Americans” (The Poetry Foundation). Her book The Round House, winner of the National Book Award for fiction, is a “powerful novel” that showcases Erdrich’s “extraordinary ability to delineate the ties of love, resentment, need, duty, and sympathy that bind families together” (The New York Times), with “stunning language that recalls shades of Faulkner, García Márquez, and Toni Morrison” (USA Today). Her novel The Plague of Doves received the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and both her novel LaRose – which The New York Times called “incandescent” – and her debut Love Medicine won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. She also was awarded the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. Erdrich comes to Houston to share her new novel The Night Watchman, based on the extraordinary life of Erdrich’s grandfather, who as a working man carried on the fight against Native dispossession. She lives in Minnesota and is owner of the independent bookstore Birchbark Books.

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Book Club’s spring 2020 selection is The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich. Visit the museum’s website here for more information!