Critical Praise

"Trim, haunting, beautifully sketched...Four Souls stands alone as a trenchant rendering of the costs and causes of love, family, identity, memory and revenge."

——Elle

"Like a delicate sprinkle of hope, FOUR SOULS leaves sweet tracks in Erdrich's evolving and masterful dissection of the beauty and imagination of Ojibwe life."

——Miami Herald

"Four Souls juxtaposes ... the ribald and the elegiac."

——Atlantic Monthly

"Powerful and haunting."

——Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

"Erdrich masterfully evokes the clash between Native American psychology and modern values .... She sustains a literary voice like no other, familiar and so foreign at the same time."

——People

"Great originality and charm."

——Entertainment Weekly

"Vividly evoked ...A welcome addition, then, to a uniquely enthralling and important American story."

——Kirkus Reviews

"Fleur's story, along with comic subplots involving the narrators, is marked by imagery both poetic and moving."

——Library Journal

"Stunning flights of lyricism."

——San Francisco Chronicle Book Review