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Souls   Taking up where Tracks leaves off, in Four Souls, a
strange and compelling woman decides to leave home, and the
story begins. Fleur Pillager takes her mother's name, Four
Souls, for strength and walks from her Ojibwe reservation to the
cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul. She is seeking revenge on
the lumber baron who has stripped her reservation. But revenge
is never simple, and she quickly finds her intentions
complicated by her own dangerous compassion for the man who
wronged her.  The two narrators of Four Souls are from utterly
different worlds. Nanapush is both Fleur's savior and her
conscience. He tells Fleur's story and tells his own. When his
childhood nemesis appears and casts his eye toward his wife,
Margaret, Nanapush acts out an absurd revenge of his own and
nearly ends up destroying everything. The other narrator, Polly
Elizabeth Gheen, is a pretentious and vulnerable upper-