![]() ![]() LaRose, however, keeps things from becoming unremittingly bleak. Everyone's path, personality and relationship to one another are warped by this loss. ![]() Meanwhile, the Irons' other children mourn, and cede the spotlight to LaRose when he finally returns for visits. Peter fantasizes about murdering Landreaux in revenge, but his love for LaRose restrains him. Nola clings to LaRose, constantly reading him Where the Wild Things Are, Dusty's favorite book. Erdrich investigates grief's impact from every angle - how it sours the marriage between Landreaux and Emmaline as they rue his fatal mistake, and how after an initial rejection, LaRose bolsters Maggie, Dusty's sister. The rest of the novel concerns the long haul of grief, the burden now shared by two families as Nola refuses to let LaRose's parents see him for months. Peter thinks, “Nola was allowing herself to be helped somehow, but whether it was that she accepted this unspeakable gift as beauty, or whether she believed the child’s absence over time would leak the life blood from Landreaux’s heart, he couldn’t tell.”Īll this intense drama occurs within the first 15 pages of LaRose. Nola is fragile, and Peter realizes that accepting LaRose might be the only way to keep her from suicide. ![]()
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