Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine: A Casebook

by Hertha Dawn Sweet Wong (Editor)

Louise Erdrich's first novel, Love Medicine, came out in 1984 to instant and international acclaim. A short story cycle narrated by a variety of different characters, the book chronicles the intertwined histories of Chippewa and mixed-blood families in North Dakota over half a century, laying bare the ordeals and joys of twentieth-century Native American life and evoking the continued relevance of homeland, humor, and storytelling to indigenous survival.

256 pages, Hardcover

First published November 11, 1999

Reviews

[Nathan · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is another one of those Native American story books that uniquely wrap you around the lives of two various families that become intertwined. There was lots to follow, but each turn of the characters' lives made it enjoyable. Is this the next big author in my collection?