So far I only read The Birchbark House – I kept trying to get myself to read her contemporary fiction, but then getting scared away by how tough the subject matter sounded. (The Round House is the main one I remember I kept trying to pick up, which was probably not the ideal place to start.) But I do have Love Medicine at the top of my want-to-read list!

I was actually thinking of you and grrlpup and other Portland folks when I read The Lathe of Heaven! Especially since I read Darius the Great Deserves Better around the same time, so there was a lot of Portland in my life just then.