Python's kiss stories
If you are touched by the tongue of a snake, it is somehow good. It gives you wisdom and long life. In Ojibwe mythology, Mishipeshu, a reptile with the head of a cat, stands sentinel at the gates of the underworld, where the mortal becomes eternal. Louise Erdrich's remarkable story collection naviga...
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New York, N.Y. :
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
2026.
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Python's kiss : |b stories / |c Louise Erdrich ; [with illustrations by Aza Erdrich Abe.] |
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| 505 | 0 | |t Python's kiss -- |t Wedding dresses -- |t The hollow children -- |t Love of my days -- |t Domain -- |t Asphodel -- |t Borsalino -- |t Assassin -- |t December 26 -- |t The feral troubadour -- |t Big cat -- |t Amelia -- |t The stone. | |
| 520 | |a If you are touched by the tongue of a snake, it is somehow good. It gives you wisdom and long life. In Ojibwe mythology, Mishipeshu, a reptile with the head of a cat, stands sentinel at the gates of the underworld, where the mortal becomes eternal. Louise Erdrich's remarkable story collection navigates this terrain where life and death are inextricably entwined. Python's Kiss probes the essence of our humanity in moments both intimate and grand, inviting us to consider the nature of existence; the wonder, bravery, shame, loneliness, yearning, and terror that drive and define us. Python's Kiss opens with the acclaimed story "Nero," originally published in The New Yorker, which explores the tragic transformation of a fierce and innocent spirit and the first stirrings of self-awareness. It is followed by twelve stories that exhibit the range of Louise Erdrich's remarkable talent. In "Hollow Children," a school bus driver experiences a terrifying realization during a freak spring blizzard. Collective consciousness and a woman's longing for revenge transcend death in the near future "Domain." "December 26" culminates in a terrible debt that must be paid. The final story, "The Stone," is a reminder of our deep connection to the earth and those who came before us. Featuring wives and husbands, spirit animals, ghosts, and talismans, betrayals and secrets, an artificial afterlife and a dangerous teenage game, Erdrich's stories, at once intimate and universal, conjure up narrative worlds which capture our beauty and pain. Python's Kiss is a gift from one of our greatest chroniclers of human fallibility and nobility, an imaginative and perceptive storyteller whose generosity of vision, wit, and lyricism sing from every page. | ||
| 590 | |a Genre sticker: Short stories. | ||
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| 650 | 0 | |a Immigrants |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Farmers |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Folk singers |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Thieves |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Revenge |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Fathers and daughters |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Future life |v Fiction. | |
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| 690 | 0 | |a Laytham, Janie tribute. | |
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