Erdrich employs a non-linear format in Love Medicine, and each chapter is told from the point of view of a different character, using first-person and third-person limited narration. Members of the families variously reside on the fictional Ojibwe reservations of Little No Horse and Hoopdance, and in Minneapolis- St.Paul and Fargo. Love Medicine follows the intertwining lives of three central families, the Kashpaws, Lamartines, and Morrisseys, and two peripheral families, the Pillagers and the Lazarres. Love Medicine garnered critical praise and won numerous awards, including the 1984 National Book Critics Circle Award. The collection of stories in the book spans six decades from the 1930s to the 1980s. The book follows the lives of five interconnected Ojibwe families living on fictional reservations in Minnesota and North Dakota. Erdrich revised and expanded the novel in subsequent 19 editions. Love Medicine is Louise Erdrich's debut novel, first published in 1984.
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