The a novel Erdrich, Louise creator author. text nyu 2024 Large print edition. monographic eng 592 pages (large print) ; 23 cm "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 future but seems to resolve his. Hugo, a gentle red-haired, home-schooled giant, is also in love with Kismet. He's determined to steal her and is eager to be a home wrecker. Kismet's mother Crystal hauls sugar beets for Gary's family, and on her nightly runs, tunes into the darkness of late-night radio, sees visions of guardian angels, and worries for the future--her daughter's and her own. Human time, deep time, Red River time, the half-life of herbicides and pesticides, and the elegance of time represented in fracking core samples from unimaginable depths, is set against the speed of climate change, the depletion of natural resources, and the sudden economic meltdown of 2008-2009. How much does a dress cost? A used car? A package of cinnamon rolls? Can you see the shape of your soul in the everchanging clouds? Your personal salvation in the giant expanse of sky? These are the questions the people of the Red River Valley of the North wrestle with every day"-- Louise Erdrich. n-us-nd n------ Indians of North America Fiction Human ecology Fiction Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 Fiction Love triangles Fiction Man-woman relationships Fiction Climatic changes Fiction Conservation of natural resources Fiction Large type books Red River Valley (Minn. and N.D.-Man.) Fiction North Dakota Fiction PS3555.R42 M54 2024b 813/.54 9780063410404 0063410400 TnLvILS 240806 20241016140324.0 zminfo b493284 eng