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

'A masterpiece, written with spellbinding authenticity and animated by a spirited comic energy.' Philip Roth 'The beauty of 'Love Medicine' saves us from being completely devastated by its power.' Toni Morrison 'A powerful piece of work ... Louise Erdrich is the rarest kind of writer, as compassionate as she is sharp-sighted.' Anne Tyler 'The impression is of a river of memory bursting its banks and overflowing upon the page in an irresistible flood.' Angela Carter 'Erdrich presents a variety of voices: each forceful in its own way, each adding a different dimension - cruel, sombre, humorous - to what is cumulously a wondrous prose song ... 'Love Medicine' is finally about the enduring verities of loving and surviving, and these truths are revealed in a narrative that is an invigorating mixture of the cosmic and the tragic.' New York Times