I wasn’t entirely expecting to put these two books side by side in my own reading, but both sort of came up in their own way in my selection process. I knew the basics of the Willa Cather novel going in, so I probably internalized the Louise Erdrich novel’s plot as well as I chose. But not only do these novels include a Catholic priest as their central figure, but they also involve that priest working in the American (Mid)West and specifically ministering to Native […]