In this article, the author discusses two books ("Tales of Burning Love" and "Bingo Palace" by Louise Erdrich) that highlight location and family as the foundation of home. The two novels suggest that "home" must be revised to include, negotiate, and, at times, embrace tenets of Western ideology in order to find or secure one's home. While various other Louise Erdrich works and characters address similar issues of belonging or (re)defining space or place, these novels are directly connected through a reverberating sequence of events that leads the novels' central characters into chronological circles of cultural/economic bankruptcy, rebirth, and eventually home. The author's claims elaborate on how the term "home" is (re)defined or created by people, community, space, and language, regardless of urban or rural setting, and how (re)connection to the community, the past, and the land is possible. It is the connections between the these elements that work in tandem and complimentary manners to construct home. (Contains 6 notes.)