Love Medicine
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Average rating4.1
Set on and around a North Dakota reservation, Love Medicine, the first novel by National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich is the epic story about the intertwined fates of two families: the Kashpaws and the Lamartines. With astonishing virtuosity, each chapter draws on a range of voices to limn its tales. Black humor mingles with magic, injustice bleeds into betrayal, and through it all, bonds of love and family marry the elements into a tightly woven whole that pulses with the drama of life. Filled with humor, magic, injustice and betrayal, Erdrich blends family love and loyalty in a stunning work of dramatic fiction, now available in this Harper Perennial Deluxe Modern Classic, featuring beautiful cover artwork on uncoated stock, French flaps, and deckle-edge pages.
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8 primary books#1 in Love Medicine
Love Medicine is a 8-book series with 8 released primary works first released in 1984 with contributions by Louise Erdrich.
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After reading and loving Tracks, I went out and tried to read all her other books. I'm not sure which I liked better;; Love Medicine is a collection of short stories about a lot of different characters, and Tracks focuses more tightly on a few characters. At any rate, I'm a big fan.
I just wish Good Reads had half stars; I would probably give this four and a half. I don't know. Maybe it's five. But I'm kind of wishy-washy and I don't want to overrate books. Whatever though, it was great. I'll bump it up to five BECAUSE I CAN.
I love Louise Erdrich's prose but the characters in this book were a bit too flawed and hard to sympathize with.
