Surely, the Creator has a reason for allowing the world to deteriorate into a base version? Cedar finds her birth mother living on a reservation in her home state of Michigan. Despite seeing evolution in action, she and other Catholics, along with other religions, refuse to lose faith in their gods. Along the path to finding her birth parents, Cedar discovers an ingrained faith and follows the Catholic path to find substance in her life. Cedar, an Ojigwe native, adopted at birth by liberal couple Glen and Sera Songmaker, struggles with her own faith as the world decomposes around her. What ‘Future Home’ appears to be is an inner battle between faith and evolution. The book reads like a love letter to Cedar’s baby, written not in chapters but in journal entries. Erdrich does not spoon feed her audience details about the devolution, instead, feeds snippets of information, just enough to follow the world she has created. Even newborn humans are born bigger and affected mentally by the regression. The world has devolved, as in animals returning to their larger less evolved versions long forgotten. Louise Erdrich’s new novel ‘Future Home of the Living God’ is a character-focused dystopian society following the life of Cedar Songmaker and her unborn child. Louise Erdrich, the New York Times bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of ‘LaRose’ and ‘The Round House,’ 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.
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