![]() Motherhood puts characters at risk, but those who fight to give birth to their children and keep them out of the hands of the potentially fascist state are helping to save (or further undermine) a world blasted by mysterious genetic crisis.īeing pregnant instills in the narrator, Cedar Songmaker, an almost blindingly naïve belief in the sanctity of life, even as she frequently finds fault with those around her. ![]() ![]() Merely asserting the right to determine what is done with her body and her children makes a woman a rebel. In the post-apocalyptic landscape of Louise Erdrich's latest novel, The Future Home of the Living God, motherhood is both the best and worst role one could have. ![]()
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