![]() ![]() Phil rescues Sera, bearing the physical signs of having been tortured. The Ojibwe reservation is besieged by the UPS. Cedar’s increasing marginalization as a Native American and a pregnant woman represents the negative consequences of taking stability and freedom for granted. The novel highlights the fragility of human rights and political institutions, criticizing America’s narrative of inevitable progress. Cedar is threatened by one such group when it starts to round up pregnant women for the “protection” of their unborn children. Meanwhile, the United States government has undermined citizens’ rights to bodily autonomy, and radical religious groups try to seize control over human reproduction. In the novel’s pre-apocalyptic America, human evolution has reversed, meaning that the species has begun to biologically regress into an infertile state. Told by Cedar Hawk Songmaker, a pregnant Native American woman in her mid-twenties living in Minneapolis, the story consists of her reflections as she waits to give birth. ![]() ![]() Future Home of the Living God is a 2017 speculative fiction novel by American author Louise Erdrich. ![]()
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