Cover of Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich

Love Medicine

Louise Erdrich · 1984

Fifty years of two Ojibwe families told in overlapping voices, starting with a death in the snow.

Erdrich’s first novel opens with June Kashpaw walking into a snowstorm and works outward across fifty years and two Ojibwe families on and around a North Dakota reservation, handing the narration between more than a dozen voices. It won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1984 and began the interconnected cycle she has been writing ever since.

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