Love Medicine Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award; Fiction 1984

"A wondrous prose song . . . about the enduring verities of love and surviving, and these truths are revealed in a narrative that is an invigorating mixture of the cosmic and the tragic." - New York Times Book Review

"A powerful piece of work . . . Louise Erdrich is the rarest kind of writer; as compassionate as she is sharp-sighted" - Anne Tyler

"We know we are in the hands of an exceptionally skilled, sensitive, observant writer ... Love Medicine is the work of a tough, loving mind." - Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post

"The beauty of Love Medicine saves us from being completely devastated by its power." - Toni Morrison

"Lyrical and funny, mystical and down-to-earth, Love Medicine entrances" - Christian Science Monitor

"A masterpiece, written with spellbinding authenticity." - Philip Roth

"A remarkable first novel that stares more boldly at many of the truths of Native American life in the country than any fiction I've read.... It is a deeply, if ironically, spirited novel." - Chicago Sun-Times