Birchbark Books and Native Arts
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Birchbark Books is operated by a spirited collection of people who believe in the power of good writing, the beauty of handmade art, the strength of Native culture, and the importance of small and intimate bookstores. Our books are lovingly chosen. Our store is tended with care.
New from Louise Erdrich
Future Home of the Living God
The world as we know it is ending. Evolution has reversed itself, affecting every living creature on earth. Science cannot stop the world from running backwards, as woman after woman gives birth to infants that appear to be primitive species of humans. Thirty-two-year-old Cedar Hawk Songmaker, adopted daughter of a pair of big-hearted, open-minded Minneapolis liberals, is as disturbed and uncertain as the rest of America around her. But for Cedar, this change is profound and deeply personal. She is four months pregnant. A chilling dystopian novel both provocative and prescient, Future Home of the Living God is a startlingly original work: a moving meditation on female agency, self-determination, biology, and natural rights that speaks to the troubling changes of our time.
Featured Books
Collected here are poems of great breadth—long narratives, political outcries, experimental works, and traditional lyrics—and the result is an essential anthology of some of the best poets writing now. “A breathtaking, wide-ranging work of art... a modern classic.”—BuzzFeed
"Welcome to a brilliant and generous artist who has already enlarged the landscape of American Fiction. There There is a comic vision haunted by profound sadness. Tommy Orange is a new writer with an old heart." —Louise Erdrich
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Recent and Featured Books from Louise
All books by Louise Erdrich available in our online shop are signed by the author!
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Birchbark Books Reading Series
The Birchbark Books Reading Series is pleased to present Elizabeth Weir, William Reichard, Stanley Kusunoki and Margaret Hasse. Curated by Michael Kiesow Moore and Ardie Medina, the reading series features new, emerging, and established writers quarterly September through May. View the series flyer for details about the writers and the event. Bring along a friend!
Freya Manfred: Loon In Late November Water
Lake of the Isles Lutheran Church
2020 W Lake of the Isles Parkway, Minneapolis
Birchbark Books welcomes Freya Manfred for a reading from her seventh full-length collection of poems, Loon in Late November Water (Red Dragonfly Press). Reception and signing to follow the reading. "Freya Manfred’s visionary poems range far and deep. I can’t remember when I have read truer or more urgent poetry. She shares Whitman’s American grandness of spirit, but she is a clear-sighted woman of a later age in our national experiment."—Connie Wanek, author of Rival Gardens.
