Future Home of the Living God Summary
Louise Erdrich

Future Home of the Living God Overview

Louise Erdirch's dystopian novel, Future Home of the Living God, tells the story of Cedar Songmaker, a pregnant woman on the run during the apocalypse. She is being pursued by a shadowy organization called the Unborn Protection Society (UPS), which seeks to rob women of their reproductive choices and freedom. Cedar escapes from a UPS detainment facility and seeks safe harbor at the Ojibwe Native American reservation where her newly discovered biological family lives. A burgeoning Native American society is reclaiming land taken from them over a century before. The novel features themes related to Catholicism, Native American culture, family, and oppression.