Summary Of Love Medicine By Louise Erdrich

Throughout history, there have been many influential writers who have in one way or another affected the way in which we look at life. One of those writers is Louise Erdrich. Louise Erdrich was born on July 6, 1954 in Little Falls Minnesota. Since she was very young, she began to write stories because she was encouraged by her father to do so. She then went on to college to pursue her career and majored in English and Creative writing. She got married in October of 1981 and due to difficulties with her husband, they divorced after fifteen years of marriage. They had six children in total three of their children were adopted, and the other three the couple had together. Louise Erdrich has written many stories and books, and many of the books

This book truly explores the generations because her story takes place over the course of fifty years, in the lives of three generations of related families.” Erdrich’ writes at the “edge” of the genre of the novel” (Stookey 31) with this, the reader is able to get an idea that Erdrich is not a normal author. A normal author that does not do the normal protagonist especially with this story Love Medicine. Throughout this story she explores topics that most families could encounter departure, returns, journeys through life, harsh moments that any normal human may encounter through their life. As well as characters, experiencing dissolution of family, something that is unusual about Erdrich is that each character tells stories in their own voices. The character’s stories all seem very realistic, living in North Dakota, being and confronting the harsh life of being a Native Americans. One Story from Love Medicine is the “The Red Convertible” which talks about two brothers which seem to be very close, one of the brothers leaves to the war and when he comes back he seems very affected, he is depressed, and not the same as he used to be. His brother tries to get to him back but cannot do so and his brother ends up killing himself. With this, she presents

In Tracks Erdrich presents the devastation that occurs with the Chippewa or Ojibway people. She presents the people who are faced with devastation and starvation and the situations that women are faced with during this time due to the lack of rights for women. After this incident, one of the girls gets pregnant and has a difficult pregnancy and difficult child birth. This novel also takes place in the 20th century and in Argus which also happens to be the same town in which Beet Queen takes