Waiting for the tide ("j'attends la marée”)

“Sorrow eats time. Be patient. Time eats sorrow.”

Louise Erdrich’s LaRose is a story about the Ravich and Iron families, neighbors and relatives, who become deeply bound and deeply estranged when LaRose’s father accidentally kills LaRose’s best friend, five-year-old Dusty Iron. In restitution, LaRose’s parents, Landreaux and Emmaline, surrender five- year-old LaRose to Dusty’s parents, Nola and Peter, …