I love Louis Erdrich. Continuation of the stories of Native Americans started in "Love Medicine" and "The Beet Queen".


Although I usually enjoy this author, I didn't get into this one quickly and ended up deciding to pass it on unfinished as the mountains of books called to me.

Arrived in post today! I recently read Love Medicine. This will be my second Lousie Erdrich experience. We'll see how it goes! It's been on my wish list for awhile! Thank you for sharing!

I recently read Cold Mountain which had many vivid descriptions of "living off the land." The descriptions in this book reminded me of Cold Mountain. Except for one additional fact, the way Erdrich described survival in the cold. After surviving my childhood winters in South Dakota with the use of thoroughly modern accomodations, I can't imagine what it would be like to survive in a North Dakota winter where you have to go out and hunt your own food. The descriptions of famine and disease within the context of the cold temperatures I found totally mind-numbing. That is the totally amazing thing about good literature. Gives you the ability to see into the past beyond what I can imagine with my meager brain.

I also enjoyed the spiritual/mystic aspects of this book.

I wished I had read Love Medicine more recently. I'm sure I missed some of the interrelationships that I had learned about previously. I didn't realize at that time that these were a continuation.

Thank you so much, therubycanary, for sharing this book with me. I will be passing this along to KansasKiwi (who had this on her wishlist) as a RABCK in your honor by 7/27.

Oh, my, this is a good BookCrossing day! Thank you so much for this RABCK, heartsong2! I very much look forward to reading this.

A friend recommends that I read Tracks before I dive into Love Medicine, which is chronological order rather than publication order.

A beautiful mix of humor, tragedy, sex, and magic.

Louise Erdrich richly shows her understanding of Native American (Ojibwe) culture back when the White Man's not-so-postive influence was being thrust upon those who had no need of it.

After recently reading The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse (my first Erdrich book), I'm pleased the author offered, with Tracks, a deeper look into the lives of several interesting characters. For further insight I'm keen to devour Love Medicine.

Thank you, heartsong2, for sharing this book with me. For now... it's a keeper.

Left on the bookshelf.