When Albertine Johnson sees a dark-haired soldier near the bus
shelter in Fargo she knows she recognizes him. He is, like her, a
Chippewa Indian from the North Dakota reservation. They have both
left home to find a wider world - he to the war in south east Asia,
she to a job in the big city; but they both feel the cultural pull
of the extraordinary community to which they belong drawing them
together. Louise Erdrich's poetic novel is a sequence of stories
about the inhabitants of this tight-knit world where two families,
the Lamartines and the Kashpaws are centre-stage in a scene
pulsating with uncontained emotion - love, lust, anger and
laughter, frustration and strong drink, where the young are
continually torn between loyalty to the old ways and desire to meld
into the fast-moving American life around them. Erdrich is herself
part Chippewa and reading her remarkable book gives the reader a
moving insight into a way of life that persists in the reservations
where a tribal sense of belonging sweeps away conventional
barriers. People leave home to go to jobs, prison, marriages, the
army, but they return, are recognized and fall into place like
pieces of a jigsaw that is incomplete without them. For a moment
the reader is part of the magic and will perhaps always be wiser
and more tolerant for having been there. First published in 1984 to
great acclaim, this novel has been expanded and Erdrich has written
three companion novels, Belt Queen, Tracks and The Bingo Palace.
(Kirkus UK)
Beautiful reissue of Louise Erdrich's most famous novel, from one
of the most celebrated American writers of her generation and
winner of the National Book Award 2012. 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. Greeted with great critical
acclaim when first published in 1984, 'Love Medicine' won the US
National Book Critics' Circle Award. Louise Erdrich has now
substantially revised and expanded the novel for this edition, to
complement its companion novels, 'The Beet Queen, 'Tracks' and 'The
Bingo Palace'.
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