Night Train Stories

"It takes love, fortitude, and no small amount of humor to survive the sun-starved winters of the Great Plains. In Night Train, Lise Erdrich offers a sharp-humored and powerful primer on life in the small towns and Indian reservations of Minnesota and North Dakota. With striking imagery and insight, her stories play out against backdrops of emergency rooms, supermarket aisles, backwoods parties, family breakfast tables, and sterile, but emotionally fraught offices. As the pressures of daily life collide with the insidiousness of history, the personal struggles and small triumphs of her hardscrabble characters reveal their grace, grit, and determination. In a place where finding reasons to keep going (and keep growing) can be the most profound accomplishment, Erdrich's lightning-quick stories provide them in cathartic doses, and within the many voices of her tales, all the crazy starts to make sense."--BOOK JACKET.Erdrich, Lise is the author of 'Night Train Stories', published 2008 under ISBN 9781566892025 and ISBN 1566892023.