Love Medicine
Louise Erdrich · b. 1954 · United States
Why it matters
Two Ojibwe families braid across generations of the reservation in interlocking voices, comic, tragic, and mythic. Erdrich's debut opened a community the American novel had left unwritten.
At a glance
family sagashort story collection
Difficulty 6/10medium pace273 pagesInterlocking voices and a nonlinear generational structure require tracking a large cast.
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