Abstract:Louise Erdrich’s
Future Home of the Living God
(2017) imagines a future in which an evolutionary crisis threatens humanity. Bacteria released from melting permafrost have caused fauna to regress to past evolutionary stages, and human beings are either miscarrying or birthing “previous hominins.” Members of the novel’s older (wealthy, white) generation decry the crisis as the end of the aesthetic: “There goes literary fiction!” For them, evolutionary atavism can only lead to stunted arti… Show more
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