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The Round House
A National Book Award winner from "a brilliant chronicler of Native-American life" Louise Erdrich. After his mother is attacked and slips away from the trauma, Joe tries to ease her pain. Unsuccessful and lonely, he is forced to grow up too soon. His father, a tribal judge, seeks justice on another matter but faces obstacles. Tired of being foiled at every turn, Joe and his friends go on a mission for answers. At the Round House, an Ojibwe place of worship, their journey begins. Intricately descriptive, tense, and urgent, Erdrich's novels reveal deeply human truths.
About the Book
Publisher’s description:
The Round House won the National Book Award for fiction.
One of the most revered novelists of our time—a brilliant chronicler of Native-American life—Louise Erdrich returns to the territory of her bestselling, Pulitzer Prize finalist The Plague of Doves with The Round House, transporting readers to the Ojibwe reservation in North Dakota. It is an exquisitely told story of a boy on the cusp of manhood who seeks justice and understanding in the wake of a terrible crime that upends and forever transforms his family.
Riveting and suspenseful, arguably the most accessible novel to date from the creator of Love Medicine, The Beet Queen, and The Bingo Palace, Erdrich’s The Round House is a page-turning masterpiece of literary fiction—at once a powerful coming-of-age story, a mystery, and a tender, moving novel of family, history, and culture.
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