From Forget to Forgive: Mother-Child Relationship in Love Medicine

Mother-child relationship has not received sufficient attention from scholars in studying Louise Edrich’s works, but the mother plays a vital role children’s identity search. This paper aims to find out mother-child Erdrich’s novel Love Medicine. Close reading is applied research, and American native traditions customs are adopted analysis. The finds that children go through process of choosing forget finally forgive their mothers search construction.