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    <body><![CDATA[I read &quot;Love Medicine&quot; as an anthologized short story twice before I finally picked up the entire book. &quot;Love Medicine&quot; is one of the three most moving short stories I've ever read. Lipsha Morrissey's voice, his eye on the world, his confidence in his gift to heal, and . . . well...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12474000">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Before I had yet read Karen Manuelito’s examination of the intersection of interests between indigenous “womanisms,” highlighting particularly the commonalities between the experiences of African American and American Indian women, I noted the similarities between the emphases on female experi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2973641">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Rob says:<br/><br/>If you haven't treated yourself to the storytelling of Louise Erdrich, this is a great place to start.  Her characters are beautiful, tragic, fun and flawed.  Sometimes all in the same person!  Her subsequent works develop many of the people introduced in Love Medicine.  Lots of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39011641">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Love Medicine is a novel set in and around an Ojibwe reservation in South Dakota. It consists of a number of vignettes and stories about various members of two families on the reservation, the Kashpaws and the Nanapush/Lamartines, whose lives are interwoven in various ways. It is remarkably well wri...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46509274">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book actually earns six stars for the passage near the end about being &quot;in love with the whole world and all that lived in its rainy arms.&quot;<br/><br/>I read this book because I remember that my grandmother loved it and I'm trying to read all of her favorite books.  What if you could ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15495971">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The first half of this book seemed tremendously fragmented - and as I looked up the ISBN number to mark which edition I read, I saw that several of the chapters were published as short stories before the book itself.  <em>Ohhhhh</em>, I thought.  <em>Well.  That explains that.</em><br/><br/>Viewed as vignettes of c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50804922">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was alright because I have (not literally) ADD and get bored easily.  But the constant need to connect stories and characters and ages and times and places....it was like an explosion of a novel.  It was fun and kept me interested, but honestly that was about the only thing that did.  This...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55545615">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[When one reads Anna Karenina, it is important to keep a paper with a list of characters and their affiliations handy. This book (as I realized too late) is similar. <br/><br/>It was a beautiful and moving story, with lots of intensity and gorgeous prose...but I kept getting confused and lost becau...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41174940">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I've been a Louise Erdrich fan for years and read this when it first came out.  I was stunned and delighted then, and even more impressed now after re-reading in preparation for teaching the book to my 10th grade English class.  It is hard to think of a more evocative, insightful, magical collection...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66014766">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Intricate family history by awesome storyteller - drew up MANY drafts of family trees to follow - quite fun to put missing pieces together.   BUT deeply upsetting - violence and viciousness are commonplace; deep rifts are never fully addressed; and the cycle of hurt continues.  book flap claims the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63312143">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was so confusing!  It was confusing in a good way, however, because it made the book a lot more interesting.  There was a lot of overlap between the stories of the two families involved in this book, which is one of the reasons why this book was confusing for the audience.  Another reason ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47476040">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Breaking from chronological order, this book's characters span four generations of two Chippewa families.  The characters are linked through memory, love, skills, genetic traits, or better yet, commonalities that resurface in an ever changing lanscape of an american reservation.<br/><br/>The struc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33432763">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[2 stars simply mean that the book was acceptable.  I learned something, but I didn't always enjoy reading it.  I found the writing to be uniquely honest and blunt, which creatively illustrated the issues which some Native Americans face.  The book is a collection of stories.  Yet, it was difficult t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31730169">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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