We'll do this together'." Erdrich, 61, is an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Tribe of Chippewa Indians. "You read through traditional accounts, someone loses a child, whether anybody else is responsible or not, and someone else decides, 'Well, you raise my child.' Or someone is unable to bear a child, and someone else decides, 'Well, here, you help me raise my child. That act, Erdrich said, comes from Native American tradition. Tragedy leads to further heartbreak when Landreaux and his wife give their own young son, LaRose, to Peter and his wife to raise. It opens with tragedy, when Landreaux Iron accidentally kills Dusty, the five-year-old son of his best friend and neighbour, Peter Ravich. LaRose, is not at its heart a funny book, but it is a very human book.
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