Ms Erdrich's language is crystalline, and there are wonderful passages on the doubleidentity of Agnes and the priest, who acknowledge each other only in private prayer.
The most aware digital citizens maintain a curious but understandable double standard: media should be liberated, but identity locks should be protected.
The Human Genome Project he helped to launch decades later is an ambitious project to discover the identity and order of every one of the three billion or so key components of the double helix.