The Beet Queen
Categories: Literature & Fiction
The Beet Queen is a 1986 novel by the American writer Louise Erdrich, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, the second of her interconnected novels set in and around the fictional town of Argus, North Dakota. In 1932 young Mary Adare and her brother Karl are abandoned by their mother and sent to Argus, where Mary is raised by her aunt and uncle at their butcher shop. Over four decades the novel follows Mary, her flamboyant cousin Sita, Karl, his friend Wallace and Celestine James, and the child born to them, Dot.
Recommended by 1 person
- Margaret Atwood: “Listed among her favourite books in The Pleasure of Reading (1992), reprinted by The Telegraph.”