Nothing that happens, nothing, is not connected here by blood.

So says Judge Antone Coutts in Louise Erdrich's Plague of Doves. Over generations, survivors of a tragedy--and their descendants-- in the town of Pluto end up as family, friends and lovers. Some reviewers think that makes Plague of Doves a quintessentially American story.

Warning! Family tree involves spoilers!

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