Plague Of Doves

Louise Erdrich's mesmerising novel, her first in almost three years, is a multigenerational tour de force of sin, redemption, murder and vengeance. It finds its roots in the 1911 slaughter of a farming family near Pluto, North Dakota. The family's infant daughter is spared, and a posse forms, incorrectly blaming three Indians and lynching them. One, Mooshum Milk, miraculously survives.

Over the next century, descendants of both the hanged men and the lynch mob develop relationships that become deeply entangled, and their disparate stories are held together via principal narrator Evelina, Mooshum Milk's granddaughter, who comes of age on an Indian reservation near Pluto in the 1960s and '70s.