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Sherry Quan Lee

Love Medicine: Deluxe Modern Classics Lakota Combining Zitkála-Sá's childhood memoriesSet on and around a North Dakota reservation, Love Medicine, the first novel by National Book Awardwinning author Louise Erdrich is the epic story about the intertwined fates of two families: the Kashpaws and the Lamartines. With astonishing virtuosity, each chapter draws on a range of voices to limn its tales. Black humor mingles with magic, injustice bleeds into betrayal, and through it all, bonds of love and family marry the elements into a tightly