“Writing in prose that combines the magical sleight of hand of Gabriel García Márquez with the earthy, American rhythms of Faulkner . . . [Erdrich] has written what is arguably her most ambitious—and in many ways, her most deeply affecting—work yet.”
—Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

The unsolved murder of a farm family haunts the small, white, off-reservation town of Pluto, North Dakota. The vengeance exacted for this crime and the subsequent distortions of truth transform the lives of Ojibwe living on the nearby reservation and shape the passions of both communities for the next generation. Bound by love, torn by history, the communities’ collective stories finally come together in a wrenching truth.

The Plague of Doves is one of the major achievements of Louise Erdrich’s considerable oeuvre, a quintessentially American story and the most complex and original of her books.