![]() ![]() ''Tracks'' takes place before the earlier novels, around the time of the first world war, when Indian tribes were struggling to hold on to what remained of their lands, and it focuses on the tangled family histories of several characters previously introduced in ''Love Medicine,'' including Marie Lazarre and Eli and Nector Kashpaw. Erdrich has created a mythical place, created it out of imagination, legend and memories of her own youth in North Dakota and by charting its collective history of loss in lapidary, poetic prose, she has given it a fierce reality in her readers' minds. As Faulkner did in his Yoknapatawpha County novels, Ms. ![]() ![]() In three luminous volumes, ''Love Medicine'' (1984), ''The Beet Queen'' (1986) and her latest novel, ''Tracks,'' Louise Erdrich has mapped out the spiritual and physical geography of a North Dakota town named Argus, and the fluctuating fortunes of several generations of its residents, most of them Indians displaced by time and change and the encroachments of an alien civilization. ![]()
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