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Erdrich's Love Medicine, a novel made up of a collection of short stories about a family of Chippewa Indians that reside on a reservation in North Dakota. The stories cover three generations, fifty years, and several families, with the main theme of the novel being the struggle between stability and change and there are eight distinct narrators. The stories seem so loosely related; some critics have questioned whether this novel really stands as a true novel alone. One critic, Allan Chavkin, describes the novel as several short stories without a complete solution to end each characters problem, and a possible solution to why the author chose to revise the original. "It is likely that Erdrich concluded after the publication of the 1984 Love
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