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Love Medicine

Louise Erdrich

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.

"A dazzling series of family portraits.... This novel is simply about the power of love." "--Chicago Tribune"

Book Details

  • Publisher: Harper Perennial
  • Publish Date: Jun 13rd, 2016
  • Pages: 402
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.00in - 5.25in - 1.00in - 0.83lb
  • EAN: 9780062162762
  • Categories: LiteraryThrillers - SuspenseFamily Life - General

About the Author

Louise Erdrich, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, is the award-winning author of many novels as well as volumes of poetry, children's books, and a memoir of early motherhood. Erdrich lives in Minnesota with her daughters and is the owner of Birchbark Books, a small independent bookstore.

Praise for this book

"We know we are in the hands of an exceptionally skilled, sensitive, observant writer ... Love Medicine is the work of a tough, loving mind." -- Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post

"The beauty of Love Medicine saves us from being completely devastated by its power." -- Toni Morrison

"A masterpiece, written with spellbinding authenticity." -- Philip Roth

"Lyrical and funny, mystical and down-to-earth, Love Medicine entrances" -- Christian Science Monitor

"A powerful piece of work . . . Louise Erdrich is the rarest kind of writer; as compassionate as she is sharp-sighted" -- Anne Tyler

"A wondrous prose song . . . about the enduring verities of love and surviving, and these truths are revealed in a narrative that is an invigorating mixture of the cosmic and the tragic." -- New York Times Book Review

"A remarkable first novel that stares more boldly at many of the truths of Native American life in the country than any fiction I've read.... It is a deeply, if ironically, spirited novel." -- Chicago Sun-Times