The Round House Summary. As the novel begins, Joe and his father, Bazil, who works as a tribal judge, are weeding saplings out from the foundation of their house. After a while, they realize that Geraldine, Joe’s mother, has not yet come home. Joe and Bazil decide to go look for her. The story of a Native American woman living on a reservation in North Dakota is attacked. Her 13 year old son tries to find out who did it. This book won the National Book Award for Fiction, the American Book Award, the ALA Alex Award and the Indies Choice Book Award for Adult Fiction. Read more/5(34). “Each new Erdrich novel adds new layers of pathos and comedy, earthiness and spiritual questing, to her priceless multigenerational drama. THE ROUND HOUSE is one of her best -- concentrated, suspenseful, and morally profound.” -- Jane Ciabattari, Boston Globe “Louise Erdrich’s prose is spare, precise, smooth as polished www.doorway.ru by:
The Round House by Louise Erdrich - review Erdrich's award-winning novel tells a story of brutal rape and a boy's coming of age on a Native-American reservation Louise Erdrich writes through. by Louise Erdrich ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 2, Erdrich returns to the North Dakota Ojibwe community she introduced in The Plague of Doves ()—akin but at a remove from the community she created in the continuum of books from Love Medicine to The Red Convertible —in this story about the aftermath of a rape. Louise Erdrich, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, is the author of many novels as well as volumes of poetry, children's books, and a memoir of early motherhood. Her novel The Round House won the National Book Award for Fiction. Love Medicine and LaRose received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction.
Erdrich's 14th novel, The Round House (Harper, ), tells the suspenseful tale of a year-old boy's investigation and desire for revenge following a brutal attack on his mother that leaves his father, a tribal judge, helpless in his pursuit to bring the perpetrator to justice. Louise Erdrich reads from The Round House A brief introduction to the historical and legal issues at the heart of Erdrich’s book How passage of Oregon Senate Bill 13 would change how Native history is taught in Oregon K schools. Title: The Round House. Author: Louise Erdrich. Page Count: pages. Genre: Coming of Age Stories, Literary Fiction. Tone: Reflective, Moving, Bleak. Summary from publisher: One Sunday in the spring of , a woman living on a reservation in North Dakota is attacked. The details of the crime are slow to surface because Geraldine Coutts is traumatized and reluctant to relive or reveal what happened, either to the police or to her husband, Bazil, and thirteen-year-old son, Joe.
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