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Love Medicine
Your family's story isn't one story. It's twelve people telling it wrong at the same time, with love. 🦃
Who it's for
Love Medicine tells a family's story in many voices across fifty years, starting with June Kashpaw's death in the snow and radiating out to the people she left.
Feelings it meets
What it is
Louise Erdrich's 1984 debut novel is made up of linked stories told by different narrators. It follows the Kashpaw, Lamartine and Morrissey families on and around an Ojibwe reservation in North Dakota from the 1930s to the 1980s.
Where to find it
In print (Harper Perennial; the 2009 'newly revised' edition is current), in libraries (Libby/Hoopla) and as an audiobook. Not public domain. Note that 1984, 1993 and 2009 editions differ in chapters.
Before you start
Heads up: A suicide and a nun's abuse of a girl.
Age: Ages 16+
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet, “On Children”
