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The Round House / Louise Erdrich

Summary:

"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, who is 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"--Page 4 of cover

Record details

ISBN: 9780062065254
ISBN: 0062065254
Physical Description: 321, 36 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Edition: First Harper Perennial edition
Publisher: New York : Harper Perennial, 2013

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes "P.S. insights, interviews & more ... ", with an interview with the author and brief essay about the novel

""Louise Erdrich, The Art of Fiction No. 208," interview by Lisa Halliday, first published in The Paris Review, Copyright ℗♭2010"--Page 2, second sequence