The novel has often been compared to Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale in its presentation of a future where rebellion against longstanding patriarchal domination results in a radicalization movement to protect it from extinction with extreme measures to maintain control. Is that the state of American which the novel predicts or the state of America in which it is read? That one might even be moved to wonder is a testament to Erdrich’s prescience. A story of dystopic rule of a minority of patriarchal white men intent on using the power of states’ rights to manipulate the federal government into embracing its orthodoxy. By the time the novel was actually published, those seemed like good times.
This novel began life as a short story inspired by fear of what seemed at the time America’s worst nightmare scenario: an impossibly unqualified, intellectually stunted man ascending to the Presidency despite getting fewer votes than his opponent who would initiate a reactionary hardcore conservative agenda designed to move the country closer toward fascism than ever thought possible. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community.
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