num_pages: 272
description: Set on and around a North Dakota reservation, ‘Love Medicine’ tells the story of the Lamartines and the Kashpaws – two extraordinary families whose fates are united and sustained in a harsh world by the strength and diversity of their love.We meet the sensual Lulu Lamartine, whose children have different fathers, but whose passionate tie to her first love, Nector Kashpaw, intensifies over the years; June Kashpaw, who froze to death in a snowstorm; and the philosophical Lipsha Morrissey, June's abandoned son, who makes a love medicine to keep his grandparents together.
language: English
title: Love Medicine: A Novel
titlecomplete: Love Medicine: A Novel
genres: Fiction, Short Stories, Literature, Adult, Classics, Novels, Adult Fiction, Contemporary, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 25869
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: Bantam Books