Love Medicine

"We know we are in the hands of an exceptionally skilled, sensitive, observant writer ... Love Medicine is the work of a tough, loving mind." – Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post

"The beauty of Love Medicine saves us from being completely devastated by its power." – Toni Morrison

"A masterpiece, written with spellbinding authenticity." – Philip Roth

"Lyrical and funny, mystical and down-to-earth, Love Medicine entrances" – Christian Science Monitor

"A powerful piece of work . . . Louise Erdrich is the rarest kind of writer; as compassionate as she is sharp-sighted" – Anne Tyler

"A wondrous prose song . . . about the enduring verities of love and surviving, and these truths are revealed in a narrative that is an invigorating mixture of the cosmic and the tragic." – New York Times Book Review

"A remarkable first novel that stares more boldly at many of the truths of Native American life in the country than any fiction I've read.... It is a deeply, if ironically, spirited novel." – Chicago Sun-Times