# Grandmother's Pigeon

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- Authors: [Louise Erdrich](https://www.bookquiver.com/louise-erdrich)
- Language: en_US
- Published: 2021-09-14
- Genres: Sociology

## Description

A grandmother’s sudden departure leaves her family with an even more puzzling, and wondrous, surprise in this enchanting story from the National Book Award–winning author—at last back in print Grandmother was a mysterious woman. She could heal with a touch (or with a cup of very bitter tea) or scare off a vicious dog with a look. But when she hitches a ride to Greenland on a passing porpoise, her family is still surprised—and then concerned. The mystery deepens when, among Grandmother’s collection of birds’ nests, the family discovers a clutch of eggs hatching. Out pop three passenger pigeons—birds of a species long extinct, supposedly. Through the words of a curious grandchild, and Jim LaMarche’s evocative artwork, Grandmother’s legacy unfolds in these pages in all its peculiarity and charm. Mixing whimsy and gravity with a little science and history, the tale of the family’s loss, and marvelous find, summons a world as intriguing as it is perfectly clear—a world animated by Louise Erdrich’s storytelling magic, inviting readers young and old to follow Grandmother, and to wonder.

## Editions

### Grandmother's Pigeon

- Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
- ISBN: 978-15-1791-147-8
- Pages: 32
- Published: 2021-09-14
- Language: en_US