Python's Kiss: Stories

A collection of short stories written over two decades by Louise Erdrich, a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author. The stories feature diverse characters including a tribal newsletter editor, immigrant farmers, bird lovers, artists, grade-school teachers, and romantics. Individual narratives include a girl who decides to spend her life with a stone, a man confronted by a folk-singing thief, and a woman who enters a corporately owned afterlife to seek revenge on her father. The collection is accompanied by specially commissioned artwork by Aza Erdrich Abe, representing a creative collaboration between mother and daughter. Through these interconnected narratives, the stories explore themes of wisdom, experience, and imagination across a range of human circumstances and perspectives.