Editing Louise Erdrich (section)

===Influence and style===
Her heritage from both parents is influential in her life and prominent in her work.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/louise-erdrich|title=Louise Erdrich|date=May 12, 2018|publisher=Poetry Foundation|access-date=May 13, 2018}}</ref> Although many of Erdrich's works explore her Native American heritage, her novel ''[[The Master Butchers Singing Club]]'' (2003) featured the European, specifically German, side of her ancestry. The novel includes stories of a [[World War I]] veteran of the German Army and is set in a small North Dakota town.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/09/books/her-own-private-north-dakota.html|title=Her Own Private North Dakota|last=Allen|first=Brooke|date=February 9, 2003|work=The New York Times|access-date=November 6, 2019|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> The novel was a finalist for the National Book Award. 
	 	
Erdrich's interwoven series of novels have drawn comparisons with [[William Faulkner]]'s [[Yoknapatawpha]] novels.  Like Faulkner's, Erdrich's successive novels created multiple narratives in the same fictional area and combined the tapestry of local history with current themes and modern consciousness.<ref>See, e.g., Powell's Books (book review), ''The Christian Science Monitor'', August 2, 2004</ref>