The beet queen : a novel /
by Louise Erdrich.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Holt, c1986.
- 338 p. ; 22 cm.
In the early 1930s, Karl and his sister Mary Adare, arrive by boxcar in Argus, a small off-reservation town in North Dakota. Orphaned, they look to their mother's sister Fritzie and her husband for refuge.