"The Leap" is a short story by American author Louise Erdrich originally published in Harper's Magazine in 1990. Erdrich's short stories, novels, poems, and children's books are known for their inclusion of Native American characters and multicultural themes, but "The Leap" departs from this tradition by portraying characters without specified racial or ethnic backgrounds. "The Leap" is the story of a young woman named Anna and her fantastical past. The story is told from the perspective of Anna's daughter and explores themes of family, sight, and the appearance of the extraordinary in everyday life.
Once named one of People magazine's most beautiful people, Louise Erdrich (born 1954) is a Native American writer with a wide popular appeal. She is no literary lightweight, however, having drawn comp...
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Like William Faulkner and his Yoknapatawpha County, American writer Louise Erdrich has created her own mythical landscape in and around Argus, a fictional Red River Valley reservation town on the Minn...
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The families Louise Erdrich first introduced in a short story, "The World's Greatest Fishermen" (1982) -- the Kashpaws, the Lamartines, the Pillagers, and the Morrisseys -- have also appeared in four ...
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Louise Erdrich is one of the most important contemporary Native American writers. She writes poetry and some of the most sophisticated fiction and nonfiction being produced in the United States; her n...
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The writings of Louise Erdrich not only reflect her multilayered, complex background but also confound a variety of literary genre and cultural categories. Although she is known primarily as a success...
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Biography EssayThe writings of Louise Erdrich not only reflect her multilayered, complex background but also confound a variety of literary genre and cultural categories. Although she is known primari...
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Louise Erdrich
Louise Erdrich
Louise Erdrich