Love Medicine

Love MedicineSet on and around a North Dakota Ojibwe reservation, the first novel by bestselling, National Book Award winning author Louise Erdrich is the epic story about the intertwined fates of two families: the Kashpaws and the Lamartines. With astonishing virtuosity, each chapter draws on a range of voices to limn its tales. Black humor mingles with magic, injustice bleeds into betrayal, and through it all, bonds of love and family marry the elements into a

and a rallying cry for the preservation of priceless languages and cultures

on the remote reservation of Little No Horse

But when heroin makes its way into the reservation and finds Virgil's nephew

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