Love Medicine
#80 of 8,085 books · #45 in Fiction
Won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (1985) and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (1984).
The first book in Erdrich's Native American tetralogy that includes The Beet Queen, Tracks, and The Bingo Palace is an authentic and emotionally powerful glimpse into the Native American experience--now resequenced and expanded to include never-before-published chapters.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- ISBN-13
- 9780060975814
- Genre
- Topics
- Native American identity and familyMultigenerational relationshipsLove and reconciliation
Awards
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for FictionWonMajor(1985)
- National Book Critics Circle Award for FictionWonMajor(1984)
Other awarded books from Louise Erdrich
- LaRose (2016)1 win · 16 score
- The Round House (2013)1 win · 15 score
- The Night Watchman (2020)1 win · 12 score
- The Plague of Doves (2009)1 win · 9 score
- The Antelope Wife (2012)1 win · 8 score
- The Beet Queen (1987)0 wins · 4 score
- The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse (2009)0 wins · 4 score
- The Sentence (2021)0 wins · 4 score
- The Mighty Red (2024)0 wins · 3 score
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