Future Home of the Living God (2017)

Cedar’s search for her Ojibwe birth family unfolds as an unexplained biological crisis gives authorities new reasons to control pregnancy. Erdrich connects bodily self-determination to family, inheritance and the question of who claims the future. This is a terrestrial dystopia about continuing structures of power, rather than an account of new settlers arriving on another planet. The intimate address to an unborn child keeps its arguments personal, while uncertainty remains part of the experience.