Study Guide

Love Medicine Section 1 Chapter 4

By Louise Erdrich

Section 1 Chapter 4

Albertine starts to try to tell Lipsha a family secret—that Aunt June was Lipsha's mother—but she doesn't quite get it out. Lipsha thinks of Grandma Kashpaw as his mother, so he's not that interested in the topic, apparently.
Also, he had heard that his mother wanted to drown him, which is another reason he's not super interested in meeting her.
They sleep for a while and awake to the sound of clanging in the house. Immediately, Albertine knows that Lynette and King are fighting.
When they get there, she finds King trying to drown Lynette in the kitchen sink. To stop him, Albertine hits him over the head with a block of wood. It doesn't seem to deter him. Finally, she climbs on his back and bites his ear.
In all of the ruckus, the pies get ruined. Albertine yells at King for this crime (rather than, you know, trying to kill his wife).
Then Lynette and King make up and go have sex in their car just a little ways from the house.