Sita is jealous of Mary and the attention that she is receiving from the family. Mary’s family members all welcome her into their home, with the exception of her cousin Sita. It is at this point that Karl decided to leave his sister and find his own place in the world. The next morning they hide in a boxcar and make their way to Argus, North Dakota where their Aunt Fritzie, the sister of their mother, lives. That evening, Mary and Karl return home for one last time. However, he does not bring her brother back. Mary is uncertain at first but she trusts the man and lets him take the baby. When the baby begins to cry from hunger, a nearby man tells Mary that he and his wife just had a baby and he offers to feed him. Mary, in spite of being younger than Karl, is the one who seems to be more in control of their situation. Unable to find a new place to live, Adelaide takes the children to a fair where she leaves them and does not return. Once the baby is born, the landlord discovers the theft and evicts Adelaide and her family. When she has nothing else of value to sell, she steals some silver spoons from her landlord. She sells everything that she can in order to survive. At this point she leaves the Minnesota farm she has been living on and with the children takes an apartment in Minneapolis. Adelaide Adare, the mother of Mary and Karl, came to her decision to abandon her children when their father, a married man with whom she was involved, dies.
The lives of the siblings intersect from time to time, as the possibility of at some point being a family again in the future looms. Karl, meanwhile, opts for a somewhat more nomadic existence. Following this, Mary ends up in the small town of Argus, North Dakota staying with relatives. The Beet Queen is the story of Mary and Karl Adare whose mother leaves them at a fair that is being conducted for the benefit of orphans. She was a 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction finalist and the winner of the National Book Award for Fiction. Erdrich is an American author who is known for novels, poems, and children’s books commonly featuring Native American characters and settings.
The Beet Queen is a 1986 novel by Louise Erdrich.
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