He quizzes his father, eavesdrops on conversations and bikes around the reservation with his three closest friends, investigating. She is so traumatized that she initially will not speak of the incident or name her attacker, and Joe decides to find the culprit. In the novel, Joe, a sheltered 13-year-old, must come to terms with crime, justice and adult sexuality after his mother is brutally raped.
Erdrich has been building this narrative world since “Love Medicine” in 1984 yet for those who don’t yet know it, this book provides a decent entree. With its cover now adorned by the National Book Awards’ gold medallion, “The Round House” will, presumably, find a wider audience than it would have before. 14 illustrates just how idiosyncratic literary competitions can be. That this book - good, but not extraordinarily so - won the National Book Award on Nov. 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.Louise Erdrich’s “The Round House” is a solid coming-of-age novel set on a fictional North Dakota Ojibwe reservation, the subject of much of her work. 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. 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.
The Round House won the National Book Award for fiction. Review Source: We Should All Be Book Worms
Genres: American Indians First Nations Metis Inuit Published by HarperCollins on September 24, 2013 Mykella Palmer is the Creative Coordinator at Teaching for Change.
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