“Beidler and Barton’s excellent reference guide has all the information any student or teacher needs to follow the interconnections of Erdrich’s novels. . . . With its sound scholarship and clear, concise writing style, this guide is a must for any library holding Erdrich’s novels. It will be heavily used by undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty.”––Choice

“This is a valuable tool for undergraduate students and advanced scholars alike. . . . A conscientious reader who uses this handbook as it is intended––to facilitate the considerable intellectual work that Erdrich’s texts demand––will find that it enhances the pleasure of traveling the road to full appreciation of Erdrich’s achievement. Including this text with Erdrich’s novels as required reading in literature classes will, without a doubt, lead students quickly to higher, more insightful levels of discussion and writing than they might otherwise have reached within the span of a single course.”––Studies in American Indian Literature

“To help readers and scholars, Beidler and Barton have put together genealogies (actual family trees for all characters in Erdrich’s novels), a map showing the settings of her novels, chronologies, an extensive character dictionary that allows readers to look up each character and get an instant history of who the character is and what he/she has done in previous books, a shorter list of minor characters, a bibliography, and an index. What the authors don’t do is try to deconstruct the actual novels. They leave that to the readers as they should. . . . This guide is an ideal supplement for those teaching courses that include Erdrich’s works or a serious reader who wants to find out more about her books.”––Baton Rouge Advocate Magazine

            This revised and expanded edition of Beidler and Barton’s indispensable A Reader’s Guide to the Novels of Louise Erdrich builds on the sellout success of the first edition. Every serious reader of Erdrich’s fiction will want access to this comprehensive new edition, which includes valuable new material.

• Completely updated with information on four new novels published since the first edition: The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse, The Master Butchers Singing Club, Four Souls, and The Painted Drum
   

• Easy-to-use genealogical charts for the various families
   

• A map and geographical details about the settings for the novels
   

• A detailed composite dictionary of characters (even including the minor characters)
   

• A glossary of all of the Ojibwe words, phrases, and sentences that Erdrich, an astoundingly versatile and energetic Native American author, uses in her panoply of novels