Guide to Abbreviations LM Love Medicine BQ The Beet Queen T Tracks SAIL Journal of the Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures NDQ North Dakota Quarterly {} Indicates a numbered item on the bibliography () Indicates a page number in a work Louise Erdrich’s novels Love Medicine, The Beet Queen, and Tracks form the first three installments of a loosely defined tetralogy, in that some characters appear in two or more of the novels, and many of them are either biological or ”soul” relations. Elaine Jahner’s (811 prophetic remark described Love Medicine as ”complex enough to affect consciousness . . . compelling enough to attract wide readership.” This seems to have been true of The Beet Queen and Trucks as well, and the novels have achieved a combination of popular success and critical attention.