The Plague of Doves Summary
Louise Erdrich

The Plague of Doves Overview

The Plague of Doves is a spiritual novel by Louise Erdrich that recounts the lives, misfortunes, and choices of the citizens of Pluto, North Dakota, primarily across five decades beginning in the 1960s, and all revolving around an old, unsolved murder. "The Plague of Doves" deals with themes of death, religion and spirituality, fate and free will, history, and race and racism as the area's residents, including young half-white, half-Ojibwe native Evelina Harp, try to make sense of their lives.