"Rather, they are an intricate web of stories, told from different points in time and different points of view, one whose pattern only becomes clear when you step back and view it from a distance."
As a Native American author, Erdrich has also been compared to Richard Wright and James Baldwin for what those writers achieved on behalf of African Americans, as well as to Philip Roth due to his Jewish narratives. Erdrich is credited with bringing Native Americans into mainstream fiction and inspiring an entire generation of new voices in Native-American literature. The daughter of a French-Ojibwe mother and a German-American father, Erdrich explores Native-American themes in her works, with major characters representing both sides of her heritage. She takes a close--sometimes near-horrific, sometimes humorous--look at the meetings of these two cultures, which sometimes clash, sometimes co-mingle. Drawing on her Chippewa/Ojibwe heritage, Erdrich examines the complex relationships--both familial and sexual--between Midwestern Native Americans and their neighboring white communities.
The first in a multi-part series, Love Medicine traces two Native-American families from 1934 to 1984 in a unique seven-narrator format through fourteen interconnected stories, and thereby sets the design for further novels with their non-chronological, episodic approach.
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