Annotation
The first book in Erdrich's Native American tetralogy that includes The Beet Queen, Tracks, and The Bingo Palace is an authentic and emotionally powerful glimpse into the Native American experience--now resequenced and expanded to include never-before-published chapters.
Awards
1985 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes
1984 National Book Critics Circle Awards
Characters
| Name | Kapshaw family |
| Traits | Chippewa |
| Native American | |
| Name | Lamartines family |
| Traits | Chippewa |
| Native American | |
| Genre | Saga --Family Magic realism Fiction |
| Topics | Native Americans Ojibwa Indians Reservation life |
| Setting | North Dakota Reservation |
| Series | ||
| Native American Saga | ||
| 1 | Love medicine | |
| 2 | The Beet queen | |
| 3 | Tracks | |
| 4 | The Bingo palace | |
| 5 | Four souls | |
| 6 | The Painted drum | |
| Native American tetralogy | ||
| 1 | Love medicine | |
| 2 | The Beet queen | |
| 3 | Tracks | |
| 4 | The Bingo palace | |