"Long before they planted beets in Argus and built the highways, there was a railroad."
-- First Sentence of Louise Erdrich, *The Beet Queen* (1986)
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Super excited to start this one, the second of her novels set in the *Love Medicine* world.
One chapter in and I'm already hooked. And it's still cold and snowy and a Saturday, and I'm wondering how much of the day I can just read away.