A tale of unhappy families summons the fierce politics of Louise Erdrich’s The Mighty Red
- Written by Patrick Flanery, Chair in Creative Writing, University of Adelaide
North Dakota River.Jared Evangelista/Shutterstock“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” So begins Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, first published in 1878, the year Russia’s imperial war against the Ottoman Empire concluded – a war that had prompted international alarm about Russian...





