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Love Medicine
Louise Erdrich.
HarperPerennial: 2001 (paperback reprint).
ISBN: 0060975547. 384 pages.
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Back in 1996, before we even knew each other, both the founders of Good Books Lately, (a.k.a. Ellen and Kira) wrote their master's theses in English on the work of Louise Erdrich. However, you shouldn't let that stop you from introducing this beautiful, expansive, evocative book to an uninitiated newcomer. The discriminating reader in your life will sink with both emotional and intellectual satisfaction into this first of Erdrich's "Native American/North Dakota" series, a crescendo of novels (the latest installment is 2002's The Last Miracle at Little No Horse) that will resonate for years and years to come. In this first novel, Erdrich focuses on two families--the Kashpaws and the Lamartines--who will be falling in love, making trouble, leaving and returning to the reservation for generations to come. Philip Roth once called Erdrich "the most interesting new American novelist to have appeared in years." We think she's still making good on that bet.
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