28. Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich, books by Indigenous authors, and intergenerational family stories

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today Chelsey and Sara are discussing</span> <a href= "https://bookshop.org/a/1300/9780061787423"><em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Love Medicine</span></em></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">by Louise Erdrich, which we selected for our back-to-school season as “a book we wish we read in high school.”</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Love Medicine</span></em> <span style="font-weight: 400;">is a novel made up of  interconnected stories that span generations of two families: the Kashpaws and the Lamartines. The stories deal with small family dramas, and huge ones, depicting characters’ past romances and relationships as these families interact over decades. There’s drama, humor, spirituality, and history in between the pages, and we have six incredible books to pair with Erdich’s masterpiece. </span></p> <p><br /> <br /></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Shop our Backlist Recs on Bookshop: </span> <a href= "https://bookshop.org/lists/anticipated-fall-reads-2020-backlist-pairings"> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">https://bookshop.org/lists/anticipated-fall-reads-2020-backlist-pairings</span></a></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Use our referral code to get TWO  audiobooks for the price of one through Libro.fm:</span> <a href="https://libro.fm/redeem/novelpairings"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">https://libro.fm/redeem/novelpairings</span></a></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">(We’re currently listening to:</span> <a href= "https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9780593215319"><em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Transcendent Kingdom</span></em></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">by Yaa Gyasi and</span> <a href= "https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9781549157998"><em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">The Pull of the Stars</span></em></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">,</span> <a href= "https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9781980052562"><em><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Barn 8</span></em></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and</span> <a href= "https://libro.fm/audioboo