In the opening section of one of this author's novels, a sculptor's daughter dies when her boyfriend drives their car off a bridge during a police chase, and they both drown.
In the opening section of one of this author's novels, a sculptor's daughter dies when her boyfriend drives their car off a bridge during a police chase, and they both drown. While reaching for a cup under a stove, one of this author's characters has scalding water poured in her ear by a Satan-obsessed nun. One of this author's characters poses for what becomes a nude painting of him plunging off a cliff, which is hung in the state capitol building. In a novel by her, an unfaithful wife sacrifices her own daughter to (*) wolves while traveling over a frozen lake, and the bones of the child are placed within the title object. Bernard narrates the multigenerational history of an instrument discovered by Faye Travers in that novel by her. Marie Lazarre marries the man who rapes her, Nector, in this author's debut novel, which opens with June Kashpaw dying while trekking back to the Chippewa reservation where she was born. For 10 points, name this Ojibwe author of The Painted Drum and Love Medicine.
In the opening section of one of this author's novels, a sculptor's daughter dies when her boyfriend drives their car off a bridge during a police chase, and they both drown.
Louise Erdrich [or Karen Louise Erdrich] 