Love Medicine

Love Medicine
First edition
AuthorLouise Erdrich
LanguageEnglish
SubjectOjibwe Family Life in Minnesota and North Dakota
GenreContemporary Native American Fiction & Family Saga
PublisherHolt, Rinehart, and Winston
HarperCollins (rev. ed.)
Publication date
1984
1993 (rev. ed.)
2009 (rev. ed.)
Publication placeUnited States
Media typeHardcover & Paperback
Pages275 pp.
367 pp. (rev. ed. paperback)
ISBN0-06-097554-7 (rev. ed. paperback)
OCLC10483004

Love Medicine is Louise Erdrich's debut novel, first published in 1984. Erdrich revised and expanded the novel in subsequent 1993 and 2009 editions. The book follows the lives of five interconnected Ojibwe families living on fictional reservations in Minnesota and North Dakota. The collection of short stories in the book spans six decades from the 1930s to the 1980s. Love Medicine garnered critical praise and won numerous awards, including the 1984 National Book Critics Circle Award.