Sweet Medicine

by David Seals

Philbert Bono, Buddy Red Bird, and Bonnie Red Bird escape the law enforcement agencies of the Southwest, aided by native Americans living in the New Mexico hills, as the return to Montana's Cheyenne reservation

Genres: Fiction

250 pages, Hardcover

First published September 29, 1992

Reviews

[Ellie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not as well-crafted as Powwow Highway, (often to the point of being entirely directionless), but totally cinematic. This story abounds with car-chases, horse chases, petite larceny, grand larceny, and plenty of wanton destruction. Of course all of this action had a purpose, but I never did figure out what it was. No matter, it was good to re-visit Philbert, Buddy, Bonnie, and Rabbit in all of their muddled mayhem.

[David Seals · Rating 4 out of 5]

New York Times, 1992:

http://www.nytimes.com/1992/11/29/boo...

Los Angeles times, 1993:

articles.latimes.com/1993-02-28/books...

"Myths and Magic"

[Kate · Rating 4 out of 5]

Takes up where Pow Wow Highway left off. More rollicking roadtripping through life from this native Kerouac, not for the gentle readers: much life unabashed, life affirming coupling goes on. Sweet Medicine indeed

[Molly · Rating 2 out of 5]

terribly uneven, but worth reading if interested in the sassy side of tribes in the western U.S. in the 1990s.

[Mills College Library]

Fiction S4387s 2014

[Leslie Reiber · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun story

[Clivemichael · Rating 2 out of 5]

Disappointing, weak, chaotic.