Python's Kiss: Stories

Python's Kiss: StoriesFrom Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning author Louise Erdrich, a captivating collection of short stories. It was as though I was chosenmarked out by the python's kiss for wisdom or maybe sorrow. Or perhaps, I think now, a sense of the ridiculous in extremes of experience. Also, I hoped for a long life. Written over the past two decades, Louise Erdrich's magnificent story collection features a range of charactersa tribal newsletter editor

Waa’aka’ is a beautiful children’s book in the classic style

sheltered from the surrounding anarchy

Amid better-known "Indian wars

What challenges does nihikéyah face in the coming generations

motherships at sea

yet behind that talent lies deep insecurity about his multiracial background

Things become even more intense when an unexpected houseguest starts crashing in her living room: a brother she didn't even know was alive

where all of these things were taken away

Up Ghost River is a necessary step toward our collective healing

also known as "the good berry

which stretch across the Great Lakes

and eternally hopeful