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The Round House
Louise Erdrich,Louise Erdrich
- 368 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
The Round House
Louise Erdrich,Louise Erdrich
About This Book
Winner of the National Book Award • Washington Post Best Book of the Year • A New York Times Notable Book
From one of the most revered novelists of our time, 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 Sunday in the spring of 1988, 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. In one day, Joe's life is irrevocably transformed. He tries to heal his mother, but she will not leave her bed and slips into an abyss of solitude. Increasingly alone, Joe finds himself thrust prematurely into an adult world for which he is ill prepared.
While his father, a tribal judge, endeavors to wrest justice from a situation that defies his efforts, Joe becomes frustrated with the official investigation and sets out with his trusted friends, Cappy, Zack, and Angus, to get some answers of his own. Their quest takes them first to the Round House, a sacred space and place of worship for the Ojibwe. And this is only the beginning.
The Round House is a page-turning masterpiece—at once a powerful coming-of-age story, a mystery, and a tender, moving novel of family, history, and culture.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Chapter One: 1988
- Chapter Two: Lonely Among Us
- Chapter Three: Justice
- Chapter Four: Loud as a Whisper
- Chapter Five: The Naked Now
- Chapter Six: Datalore
- Chapter Seven: Angel One
- Chapter Eight: Hide and Q
- Chapter Nine: The Big Good-bye
- Chapter Ten: Skin of Evil
- Chapter Eleven: The Child
- Afterword
- About the Author
- Also by Louise Erdrich
- Back Ad
- Copyright
- About the Publisher