num_pages: 367
description: The first book in Louise Erdrich's highly acclaimed "Native American" trilogy that includes "The Beet Queen," "Tracks," and "The Bingo Palace," re-sequenced and expanded to include never-before-published chapters.Set on and around a North Dakota Ojibwe reservation, Love Medicine 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.
language: English
title: Love Medicine
titlecomplete: Love Medicine (Love Medicine, #1)
genres: Short Stories, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Novels, Adult Fiction, Literature, Classics, Adult, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 25855
places: North Dakota
series: Love Medicine
awards: awardedAt: 473414400000
name: American Book Award, awardedAt: 473414400000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 473414400000
name: Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction, awardedAt: 473414400000
name: Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 441792000000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics