It will take all Cedar has to avoid the prying eyes of potential informants and keep her baby safe.Ī chilling dystopian novel both provocative and prescient, Future Home of the Living God is a startlingly original work from one of our most acclaimed writers: a moving meditation on female agency, self-determination, biology, and natural rights that speaks to the troubling changes of our time. There are rumors of martial law, of Congress confining pregnant women, of a registry, and rewards for those who turn these wanted women in. As Cedar goes back to her own biological beginnings, society around her begins to disintegrate, fueled by a swelling panic about the end of humanity. Set in Minnesota in a dystopian future in which evolution is going haywire, much of this startling new work of speculative fiction by Erdrich (LaRose) takes. She is four months pregnant.Ĭedar feels compelled to find her birth mother, Mary Potts, an Ojibwe living on the reservation, to understand both her and her baby's origins. But for Cedar, this change is profound and deeply personal. Thirty-two-year-old Cedar Hawk Songmaker, adopted daughter of open-minded Minneapolis liberals, is as disturbed as the rest of America around her. Science cannot stop the world from running backwards, as woman after woman gives birth to infants that appear to be primitive species of humans. Evolution has reversed itself, affecting every living creature on earth.

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.

'Erdrich is one of the greatest living American writers' Guardian

Home of the future living god