You wear your life like a garment from the mission bundle sale ever after-lightly because you realize you never paid nothing for it, cherishing because you know you won’t ever come by such a bargain again. Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart’s position. “I had gotten humble in the past week, not just losing the touch but getting jolted into the understanding that would prey on me from here on out. I always find undiscovered bits of wisdom within Erdrich’s multi layered writing: With each new reading, the stories take on a fresher meaning. Erdrich’s storytelling strength comes from her sense of place as being of primary significance-how a landscape and its cultural and political history shapes its people-a literary technique perfected by Toni Morrison and William Faulkner that critics and writers recognized in Love Medicine.Įrdrich’s Love Medicine is told in comic and tragic voices-strong characters confronting their destinies with too much passion-that keeps me returning to the book. Love Medicine’s power and beauty in its telling of two North Dakota Chippewa families spanning several generations has made me a devoted reader of Louise Erdrich‘s for these past 35 years. It was that year, 1984, when I read the rave reviews from the New York Times Book Review that led me to read Love Medicine. Thirty-five years ago, reading the weekly New York Times Book Review during my book clerk days at Stacey’s Bookstore, San Francisco, was a frequent and favorite pastime.
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