From the Publisher
In her boldest and most darkly humorous novel yet,
award-winning, critically acclaimed and bestselling novelist
Louise Erdrich tells the intimate and powerful stories of
five Great Plains women whose lives are connected through one
man.
Stranded in a North Dakota blizzard, Jack Mauser's former
wives huddle for warmth and pass the endless night by
remembering the stories of how each came to love, marry and
ultimately move beyond Jack. At times painful, at times
heartbreaking and often times comic, their tales become the
adhesive that holds them together in their love for Jack and
in their lives as women.
Erdrich, with her characteristic powers of observation and
luminescent prose, brings these women's unforgettable stories
to life with astonishing candor and warmth. Filled with keen
perceptions about the apparatus for survival, the force of
passion and the necessity of hope, Tales of Burning Love
is a tour de force from one of the most formidable American
writers at work today.