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FUTURE HOME OF THE LIVING GOD - LOUISE ERDRICH ...

Erdrich is one of the greatest living American writers' Guardian  Louise Erdrich  the New York
Times bestselling  National Book Award-winning author of LaRose and The Round House  paints a
startling portrait of a young woman fighting for her life and her unborn child against
oppressive forces that manifest in the wake of a cataclysmic event.  The world as we know it is
ending. Evolution has reversed itself  affecting every living creature on earth. Science cannot
stop the world from running backwards  as woman after woman gives birth to infants that appear
to be primitive species of humans. Thirty-two-year-old Cedar Hawk Songmaker  adopted daughter
of open-minded Minneapolis liberals  is as disturbed as the rest of America around her. But for
Cedar  this change is profound and deeply personal. She is four months pregnant.  Cedar feels
compelled to find her birth mother  Mary Potts  an Ojibwe living on the reservation  to
understand both her and her baby's origins. As Cedar goes back to her own biological beginnings
society around her begins to disintegrate  fueled by a swelling panic about the end of
humanity. There are rumors of martial law  of Congress confining pregnant women  of a registry
and rewards for those who turn these wanted women in.   It will take all Cedar has to avoid the
prying eyes of potential informants and keep her baby safe.  A chilling dystopian novel both
provocative and prescient  Future Home of the Living God is a startlingly original work from
one of our most acclaimed writers: a moving meditation on female agency  self-determination 
biology  and natural rights that speaks to the troubling changes of our time.

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