53 pages 1 hour read

Louise Erdrich

Future Home of the Living God

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

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Essay Topics

1.

Cedar spends the novel in search of identity. Which aspects of her identity does she discover throughout the course of the story?

2.

Cedar claims that she is writing the diary for her unborn child. What other motivations might she have for writing down every detail of her life?

3.

How is the theme of motherhood explored in the novel? Which characters present contrasting possibilities of what it means to be a mother?