Erdrich : Fleur

In this story it was said that Fleur was wed to a waterman named Misshepeshu. There had been so much gossip/talk about her that she moved from her hometown. After leaving her home she ends up working in a Butcher's shop with four men and a young girl. The men in the Butcher's shop were amazed with her talent in playing cards. The men were so fascinated that they didn't even notice her strange features, like the fact that she wore this green dress that clung to her, her sharp teeth, and the fact that she was missing some toes.

Once she defeated the men in a game of cards they went after her the following morning. During the mist of a tornado all four men end up missing, and mysteriously after hiding Fleur is alive and all four men are found dead. It mentions that after her survival of the tornado she was found living at Lake Turcot with her son, who was described as having penny color skin and blue eyes.

Of course the people in the town wondered/questioned who fathered her son. Fleur, who never let told the secret of her father child, continued to let everyone wonder about her and her child.

This was a weird reading. a few questions came top mind as I read.

Was she possessed with some kind of spirit /powers? Was she a witch ?Why was she so strange (with sharp teeth/missing teeth)? It seemed as if she like to be isolated from people and didn't have much to do with a lot of people as if she was loner .