![]() ![]() ![]() It was heralded for its rich emotional truth when first published in 1984, and won the National Book Critics’ Circle Award. ![]() Love Medicine is the first of Louise Erdrich’s polysymphonic novels set in North Dakota – a landscape that, in Erdrich’s hands, has become as iconic as William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County. Their descendants search for antidotes to heal past transgressions, revealing the endurance of a people and the sorrows of history. Marie and Nector Kashpaw and Lulu Lamartine are ensnared in a lifelong love triangle that has reverberations over the course of three generations. Erdrich introduces the Kashpaws and the Lamartines – men and women whose lives are strengthened by the virtues of love, yet are undone by the perils of desire and the tumultuous politics of the reservation. Told from the multiple perspectives of two Ojibwe families, Love Medicine gives voice to the blessings and the burdens of kinship. ![]()
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