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Future home of the living god5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Escaping the Unborn Protection Society and informants, pregnant Cedar has to hide and live in continuous fear. Pregnant women need to be reported to the agencies and kept under control in special facilities. The changing times are marked by the governmental actions toward controlling reproduction. The ambiguity behind the decision to go to the Ojibwe reservation induces much psychological burden, but she copes with it. Moreover, she feels that her meeting the biological family is a betrayal of the Songmakers. ![]() She is sure that “this would completely upset my parents, who actually have more than they need” (Erdrich 4). She is afraid of telling her adoptive family about her pregnancy. ![]() This experience is complicated by the overall situation in which she finds herself. As the story begins, the readers are introduced to the main character in need to meet her biological mother to clarify her genetics as she is preparing to give birth to a child. ![]()
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