"We know we are in the hands of an exceptionally skilled, sensitive, observant writer . . . Love Medicine is the work of a tough, loving mind." - Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post
"The beauty of Love Medicine saves us from being completely devastated by its power." - Toni Morrison
"A masterpiece, written with spellbinding authenticity." - Philip Roth
"Lyrical and funny, mystical and down-to-earth, Love Medicine entrances" - Christian Science Monitor
"A powerful piece of work . . . Louise Erdrich is the rarest kind of writer; as compassionate as she is sharp-sighted" - Anne Tyler
"A wondrous prose song . . . about the enduring verities of love and surviving, and these truths are revealed in a narrative that is an invigorating mixture of the cosmic and the tragic." - New York Times Book Review
"A remarkable first novel that stares more boldly at many of the truths of Native American life in the country than any fiction I've read. . . . It is a deeply, if ironically, spirited novel." - Chicago Sun-Times