Love Medicine

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Summary: If you love soap operas, you'll love Love Medicine
Review: liked the book a lot, found it very helpful to make a family tree in order to keep relations straight. perfect book for anyone who likes daytime drama. it starts off weird but gets interesting later on. it puts a different perspective on views of indians who live during the same time we do. it is not about indians running around in moccasins, hollering, and waving around their hatchets. they are just normal people who happen to be of native american descent. you will enjoy.

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Summary: Love Medicine: Journal #8
Review: Louise Erdrich makes a poignant point in her novel, Love Medicine. Each of the disjointed vignettes serves to further separate the family into individuals connected only by nature. Allthough this may be disheartening to us, it rings true with a majority of families. However bitter her message be, it is delivered in a prose reminisent of poetry. A delight to read, your heart will twist right along with it.

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Summary: Enlightening, sensual, evocative. Romantic & realistic.
Review: Louise Erdrich's novel, Love Medicine covers a fifty year time span through the lives of several generations of North Dakota Indians. Many of the chapters appeared as short stories in publications such as The Best American Short Stories of 1993, New England Quarterly/Bread Loaf, and The O. Henry Collection. Louise Erdrich weaves the novel together in a masterful and intricately-beaded collage. Love Medicine is a vivid and sensually evocative account of communal Indian life, culture, and landscape. Characters in this novel experience glory, shame, romance, and tragedy. In traditional fashion, women bear and raise the young, bake the bread, gather and preserve the food, while the men hunt for game, hunt for women, and drink too much. For the most part, male-female stereotypes apply to Erdrich's characters, but there are some exceptions--June Kashpaw and Lulu Nanapush, to name a few. Louise Erdrich takes the reader into different characters's viewpoints within each chapter. As the novel unfolds, one sees the intertwinning, convoluted, and potentially dangerous relationships among the characters, families, and tribes. Some of their obstacles could be encountered by any character, but a lot of their problems stem from being Indians in white man's society. Erdrich, herself a North Dakota Chippewa descendant, does and outstanding job depicting Indian culture in untamed landscape. An authentic intimacy with the Indians permeates throughout the book. The reader feels the experience of gathering Juneberries alongside Grandma Kashpaw, feels the passion between Lulu Nanapush and Nector Kashpaw, and feels the heartaches and sturdy endurance of Marie Lazaar Kashpaw. The overall tone of this book in proportionate to the real-life predicament of the American Indian. While Erdrich captures the wholesome and honorable spirit of her people, the anger, sense of injustice, and the Indians's struggling attempts to cope with their plight, comes hurling across the page like a tomahawk in motion.s. Love Medicine offe

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Summary: A Great Book to Learn About Native Americans
Review: Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich is part of a tetraology. These four books focus on four different charaters. This particular book focuses on a character named June who is absent throughout the book. "Homing In" is a huge theme that a lot of Native American authors write about and it is evident throught this book. Love Medicine also shows the struggles of anger, desire, and the healing power of two families. Love Medicine is an excellent way to find out how Native Americans live on the reservation.

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Summary: Love Medicine brings the reader into the family circle.
Review: Love Medicine chronicals the relationships between two Chippewa tribe families in North Dakota. Over a 50 year period the lives of the members of these families are intertwined through love, hate, lust, greed, honor and tradition. Love Medicine is much more than a historic chronical of two families. In reading Love Medicine the reader is drawn into the lives of the families. There is much rich symbolism in the book, which seems even more fitting in the traditional Indian setting. Many questions are left unanswered in Love Medicine, questions that may or may not be answered in subsequent books. Love Medicine also had four additional chapters inserted ten years after it was first released. The additional chapters were strategically placed within the book. To understand their significance, one needs to read both editions of Love Medicine.

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Summary: Love Medicine- Defining a Hardship in History
Review: Love Medicine defines a hard period in life for Native American Indians living on reservations located in North Dakota. The book expresses how outside environment variables such as alcohol and segregation from the U.S Goverment play a big role in the character's lives. Louise Erdrich writes a novel about multiple individuals in a family throughout the 1930's to the 1980's struggling to accept and understand each other. No matter how many problems they are confronted with, they have a strong bond allowing them to stay unified. The characters are able to have this link because they only have themselves to depend on.

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Summary: Journal #8
Review: Love Medicine is a wonderful novel shown to the reader by the individual perspectives of the characters. The trials and tribulations of the characters are unique to them in the materialistic sense, but they experience the emotional turmoil that everyone can relate to. This novel carries us through the never ending cycle of love, hatred, and lust. By opening the door for her reader Erdrich succesfully opens the door to our own souls in which we find the same basic human traist she portrays in each of her characters. I highly reccomend this book for anyone who would enjoy a refreshingly honest author.

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Summary: Journal
Review: Love Medicine is an eloquently written story which helps us understand life on a reservation and, more importantly, that it is love that keeps the family together. It is very helpful that the novel is written in a way as to let the reader examine and relate to each character on a individual basis. Although the characters are presented individually, all of the stories intertwine allowing the audience to experience the families on a personal level. Although the book moves slowly in certain areas, overall it is an emotionally interesting book.

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Summary: ?
Review: Love Medicine is one of those books that really revolves around the theme of "family." The storyline is basically about a Native American family that is shunned by society and forced to move onto a reservation by themsleves. Each chapter pretty much deals with a story for every family member, and thus gives a more personal understanding to the reader for each character's point of view. The book itself wasn't all that bad, some stories went by a lot quicker than others.

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Summary: "Love" Placebo Curses Very Little
Review: Love Medicine is the kind of book you read very slowly and very often to comprehend. It was one of the most confusing books I have read. It never really caught my interest. There were too many characters to deal with that water downed the story to the point where I did not really care about any of them. Maybe if I pick up the book again, I'd appreciate it more. In the meantime, two stars.