Love medicine : a novel

Type

Book

Authors

Louise Erdrich ( Erdrich, Louise )

ISBN 10

0030706114

ISBN 13

9780030706110

Tags

Indigenous authors, American fiction, North Dakota -- Social life and customs -- Fiction, North Dakota -- Fiction, Indigenous peoples -- North Dakota -- Fiction, Families -- Fiction, Ojibwa -- Fiction, Fiction, North Dakota

Abstract

"Louise Erdrich is a Native American and a brilliant storyteller. She writes about survival, tenacity, and the supreme power of the heart in Love Medicine, the story of the intertwined fates of the Kashpaws and the Lamartines on and around a North Dakota reservation from 1934 to 1984. With complete authenticity, Erdrich weaves a tale that encompasses all of the forms of love: the endlessly true snag of the flesh, the bind of blood, even the love that is proved only by betrayal. Life crowds these pages, powerful with music, with magic, and with the knowledge of age-old mysteries as well as fresh injustice. Rarely has a novelist's debut combined passion and drama so convincingly; rarely has a writer created a world that matters so much to the reader who meets it for the first time."--Book jacket.

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