Love Medicine | Ideas for Group Discussions

Because of Love Medicine's lyrical writing and fascinating look at Native American life, readers are usually eager to give their impressions of the novel. Probably discussions examining Erdrich's artistry and subject matter would be the best topics to pursue. Figurative language, image, and symbol leap out at readers, but so too does the shifting narrative perspective of the stories. Just as medievalists ponder the design and order of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and the relation of teller and tale, readers of Love Medicine feel groupings of stories by character and...

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