The Mighty Red
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The Mighty Red

A Novel

  1. 384 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Mighty Red

A Novel

About this book

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK • LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION

A Best Book of the Year: New York Times, The New Yorker, Time, Kirkus, Harper's Bazaar

"A novel set in a small prairie community. . . that somehow also captures the world."  — Parade

In this stunning novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich tells a story of love, natural forces, spiritual yearnings, and the tragic impact of uncontrollable circumstances on ordinary people’s lives.

In the Red River Valley of North Dakota, several lives revolve around a wedding fraught with desire, jealousy, and uncertainty. Gary Geist, a terrified young man set to inherit two farms, is desperate to marry Kismet Poe, an impulsive, lapsed goth who can’t read her own future but will settle for fulfilling his. Her best friend, Hugo, a gentle, red-haired, homeschooled giant, also loves Kismet and is determined to steal her away and build a life together. Kismet’s mother, Crystal, drives a truck for Gary’s family, and on her nightly runs, tunes in to the darkness of late-night radio, experiences visions of guardian angels, and worries about what’s to come, for her daughter and herself.

The Mighty Red is Louise Erdrich at her consummate best. A novel of tender humor, disquietude, yearning, community, and family, it is about ordinary people who dream, grow up, fall in love, struggle, endure tragedy, carry bitter secrets; men and women both complicated and contradictory, flawed and decent, lonely and hopeful. Human time, deep time, Red River time, and geological time are explored alongside the impact of crises in our own time—climate change, the depletion of natural resources, the economic meltdown of 2008. It is a story about our tattered bond with the earth, and about love in all of its absurdity and splendor.

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Information

Publisher
Harper
Year
2024
eBook ISBN
9780063277083
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literature General
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Dedication
  2. Epigraph
  3. Contents
  4. The Night Driver
  5. Crystal
  6. Part One: The Proposal
  7. The Diamond
  8. The Scream
  9. Memory Math
  10. Nevermore
  11. Not a Sad Lump
  12. The Churl
  13. Bev’s Bookery
  14. The Search for Human Meaning in the Context of Geological Time
  15. Eric’s Plan for a Bella Notte
  16. Icy Hot
  17. Skillet in the Sky
  18. Ow
  19. Martin Poe
  20. The Missing Cheese
  21. The Lord’s Ivy
  22. The Second Proposal
  23. A Black Eye at Pookie’s
  24. The Scroll
  25. Hugo
  26. The House
  27. The Cream Puff
  28. Blood of the Gods
  29. The Cheap Sectional
  30. Showdown at Bev’s Bookery
  31. Hazards and Benefits of Self-Tasering
  32. Winnie
  33. The Meeting
  34. Moving On
  35. The Cutie Pie Bandit
  36. Winnie
  37. Peach Schnapps
  38. Spaghetti Squash
  39. Part Two: Vows
  40. The Mighty Red
  41. The Red Ladder
  42. Dangercat
  43. High Ceilings
  44. No Halo
  45. The Teacup
  46. Do I
  47. Splendor Stripe
  48. Ephemeral Blip
  49. The Golden Light
  50. Perfect Advantage
  51. The Sour Rain
  52. Part Three: The Wedding Dinner
  53. Damaged Goods
  54. Alarm Will Sound
  55. The Funeral Cake
  56. Mushroom Love
  57. The Hit
  58. The Offering
  59. Part Four: Honeymoon
  60. Short Order
  61. Magic Beans
  62. Across the Lilacs
  63. The Pasture
  64. Two Little Dogs
  65. Dust vs. Dirt vs. Soil
  66. The God Stuff
  67. Happy’s Walk
  68. Beet Field Bones
  69. Bone Black
  70. The Cakelet and the Keys
  71. Outer Space
  72. The Farmer Car
  73. Rasputin
  74. The Mad Monk
  75. Diz and Gusty
  76. Lambsquarters
  77. The Bones of Venus
  78. Kismet
  79. The Death of Emma
  80. The Vesper Flight
  81. Eric
  82. The Grown-Up
  83. Three Heists and One History
  84. Aliens
  85. Frozen Grapes
  86. Crystal
  87. Part Five: Marriage
  88. Crystal
  89. North Dakota Weed of the Year
  90. Toast
  91. The Waistcoat Trove
  92. Hugo
  93. Magic Seeds
  94. Eric
  95. The Party
  96. Their Godlike Trance of Speed
  97. Jordan
  98. The Branch
  99. I Refuse You
  100. Jordan’s Fidelity
  101. Knotty Pine
  102. The Postcards
  103. Hugo
  104. The Mudlogger
  105. Oafish Words
  106. Ephemera
  107. The Mousetrap
  108. The Apocalypse Book Club
  109. At the Edge
  110. Martin
  111. At the Edge
  112. Ichor
  113. Over the Edge
  114. Ichor
  115. Aftermarriages
  116. Cottonwoods Are the Kindest Tree
  117. Coal Black, Diesel Black
  118. Martin
  119. Charley
  120. Sweetness
  121. Evolution
  122. Evolution
  123. Again
  124. Acknowledgments
  125. About the Author
  126. Also by Louise Erdrich
  127. Copyright
  128. About the Publisher