A review by rcielocruz
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich

5.0

I picked up #LouiseErdrich 's debut novel for 2 bucks at the thrift store a few weeks ago. I have been reading a chapter or two every night before bed. I felt terrible today and it was kind of the perfect day to finish it. It's sad. There is humor, like in every sad place, tinged around disaster. Something about it felt too close. Some other things felt horrific and abhorrent. There are passages that are still pulling their blade through my tough and stubborn underbelly. Some wounds never never never heal, you just befriend them after a while. June Morrissey's absence, the absent parents in general and the resentful parents who are left behind, it all really dug into me. I feel very much the Gen Xer right now, shrugging it off, but not really. It always comes out somewhere. I can't believe this was her debut. She's written so many more, but damn. She really did something here.