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Oct 16, 2012 · Louise Erdrich's latest novel examines the way violence can give rise to violence, as a young Native American man pursues justice for his mother, who has...
Oct 15, 2012 · His mother gets a telephone call, she drives off to fetch an apparently controversial file from her office, and at the tribe's ancient ceremonial lakeside round house, she suffers a brutal,...
Oct 12, 2012 · Louise Erdrich turns this dire reality into a powerful human story in her new novel, in which a Native American woman is raped somewhere in the vicinity of a sacred round house, and seeking ...
Oct 24, 2012 · Louise Erdrich’s 14th novel, “The Round House,” was recently named a finalist for the National Book Award. It’s set on the North Dakota Ojibwe reservation that is so familiar to her readers,...
Oct 2, 2012 · The novel, told through the eyes of a grown Joe looking back at himself as a boy, combines a coming-of-age story (think Stand By Me) with a crime and vengeance story while exploring Erdrich’s trademark themes: the struggle of Native Americans to maintain their identity; the legacy of the troubled, unequal relationship between Native Americans ...
May 12, 2013 · The rapist remains a cartoon villain and the events relating to his back story and the Coutts family’s efforts to bring him to justice feel tainted by contrivance and lumbering exposition.
Oct 2, 2012 · 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.
