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Love Medicine

Louise Erdrich

  • 288 pages · about 5 hours
  • First published 1984
  • 46 editions
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1 About this book

Love Medicine is Louise Erdrich's debut novel, first published in 1984 by Holt. Erdrich revised and expanded the novel in subsequent 1993 and 2009 editions. The book follows the lives of five interconnected Ojibwe families living on fictional reservations in Minnesota and North Dakota.

The collection of short stories in the book spans six decades from the 1930s to the 1980s. Love Medicine garnered critical praise and won numerous awards, including the 1984 National Book Critics Circle Award.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

  • Historical fiction
  • Native Americans
  • Interviews
  • Family life
  • Social life and customs
  • Ojibwa Indians
  • Indians

2 About Louise Erdrich

Born 1954

Karen Louise Erdrich ( ER-drik; born June 7, 1954) is an Indigenous-American author of novels, short stories, poetry, and children's books featuring Native American characters and settings. She is an enrolled citizen of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians of North Dakota, a federally recognized Ojibwe people. Erdrich is widely acclaimed as one of the most significant writers of the second wave of the Native American Renaissance.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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