num_pages: 256
description: Louise Erdrich's first novel, Love Medicine, came out in 1984 to instant and international acclaim. A short story cycle narrated by a variety of different characters, the book chronicles the intertwined histories of Chippewa and mixed-blood families in North Dakota over half a century, laying bare the ordeals and joys of twentieth-century Native American life and evoking the continued relevance of homeland, humor, and storytelling to indigenous survival.
language: English
title: Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine: A Casebook
titlecomplete: Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine: A Casebook (Casebooks in Criticism)
ratings_count: 11
publisher: Oxford University Press