Love Medicine (Erdrich)

Love Medicine
Louise Erdrich, 1984 (rev. 2009)
HarperCollins
400 pp.
ISBN-13: 9780061787423


Summary
Winner, 1984 National Book Critics Circle Award

The first book in Louise Erdrich's Native American series, which also includes The Beet Queen, Tracks, and The Bingo Palace, Love Medicine tells the story of two families—the Kashpaws and the Lamartines. Now resequenced by the author with the addition of never-before-published chapters, this is a publishing event equivalent to the presentation of a new and definitive text.

Written in Erdrich's uniquely poetic, powerful style, Love Medicine springs to raging life: a multigenerational portrait of new truths and secrets whose time has come, of strong men and women caught in an unforgettable drama of anger, desire, and the healing power that is "love medicine." Discover the writer whom Philp Roth called "the most interesting new American novelist to have appeared in years" all over again. (From the publisher.)