num_pages: 263
description: Louise Erdrich 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 in this dystopian novel. Twenty-six-year-old Cedar Hawk Songmaker adopted daughter of a pair of Minneapolis liberals is as disturbed and uncertain as the rest of America around her. But for Cedar this change is profound and deeply personal. She is four months pregnant.Though she wants to tell the adoptive parents who raised her from infancy Cedar first feels compelled to find her birth mother Mary Potts an Ojibwe to understand both her and her babys 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.
language: English
title: Future Home of the Living God
publisher: Harper