New York Times best-selling author and National Book Award finalist Louise Erdrich is acclaimed as one of the most important writers in the Native American Renaissance. In The Porcupine Year, Erdrich takes listeners to 1852 Minnesota. Omakayas, a 12-year-old Ojibwe girl, continues to travel west with her family after white settlers take over their homeland. Erdrich's books on Omakayas have been favorably compared to Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books