![]() ![]() In a 1991 interview with Writer’s Digest, Erdrich noted, “People in families make everything into a story … People just sit and the stories start coming, one after another. Erdrich explains in her author’s note at the end of the 2009 edition that she now understands she is “writing one long book in which the main chapters are also books” and that the characters in Love Medicine “live out their destinies” in her later work. Revisiting the book for the 25th-anniversary edition, Erdrich felt that these two stories “interrupted the flow” of the novel’s final pages and chose not to include them. The 1993 version contained material not included originally, such as the stories “Lyman’s Luck” and “The Tomahawk Factory.” ![]() Since Love Medicine was initially released in 1984, several editions of the novel have been published. Good writing means revising, and sometimes the process never ends. This modern classic is an often sad, sometimes funny look at the ways family and tradition bind us together. Using an eclectic range of comic and tragic voices, Louise Erdrich leads the reader through the interwoven lives of two Chippewa families living in North Dakota. A novel-in-stories about passion, family, and the importance of cultural identity, Love Medicine examines the struggle to balance Native-American tradition with the modern world. ![]()
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