The Porcupine Year: 3 (Birchbark House) - Hardcover

Erdrich, Louise

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060297875 ISBN 13: 9780060297879

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2008

Synopsis

The third novel in the critically acclaimed Birchbark House series by New York Times bestselling author Louise Erdrich.

Omakayas was a dreamer who did not yet know her limits.

When Omakayas is twelve winters old, she and her family set off on a harrowing journey in search of a new home. Pushed to the brink of survival, Omakayas continues to learn from the land and the spirits around her, and she discovers that no matter where she is, or how she is living, she has the one thing she needs to carry her through.

The Birchbark House Series is the story of one Ojibwe family's journey through one hundred years in America. In a starred review, Kirkus Reviews wrote that The Porcupine Year is "charming, suspenseful, and funny, and always bursting with life."

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Review:

"Readers will want to follow this family for many seasons to come."--Publishers Weekly on The Birchbark House

"Erdrich is a talented storyteller. She has created a world, fictional but real: absorbing, funny, serious, and convincingly human."--New York Times Book Review on The Game of Silence

"Charming, suspenseful, and funny, and always bursting with life."--Kirkus Reviews on The Birchbark House

"Readers who loved Omakayas and her family in The Birchbark House have ample reason to rejoice in this beautifully constructed sequel."--Kirkus (starred review) on The Game of Silence

"The novel reinforces the strength and importance of family."--KLIATT (starred review)

"The struggle to survive provides the exciting action in this sequel to The Birchbark House (1999) and The Game of Silence (2005), which takes place in 1852. What is left unspoken is as powerful as the story told."--Booklist (starred review)

"Charming and enlightening."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"The events in this installment will both delight and appall readers."--School Library Journal (starred review)

About the Author:

Louise Erdrich is the author of fifteen novels as well as volumes of poetry, children's books, short stories, and a memoir of early motherhood. Her novel The Round House won the National Book Award for Fiction. The Plague of Doves won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and her debut novel, Love Medicine, was the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Erdrich has received the Library of Congress Prize in American Fiction, the prestigious PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. She lives in Minnesota with her daughters and is the owner of Birchbark Books, a small independent bookstore.

Louise Erdrich is the author of fifteen novels as well as volumes of poetry, children's books, short stories, and a memoir of early motherhood. Her novel The Round House won the National Book Award for Fiction. The Plague of Doves won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and her debut novel, Love Medicine, was the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Erdrich has received the Library of Congress Prize in American Fiction, the prestigious PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. She lives in Minnesota with her daughters and is the owner of Birchbark Books, a small independent bookstore.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0060297875
• ISBN 13: 9780060297879
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 208
• Illustrator: Erdrich Louise