As Joe, now older, looks back on that time of anger and confusion, we come to understand how a young boy might view the events and decide to take matters into his own hands. Joe and his father, a tribal judge, don't know how to help her recover, nor can Joe's father untangle the web of jurisdictional legalities to bring the perpetrator to justice. In the weeks following the attack, his mother mostly refuses to eat and won't leave her bedroom. Joe Coutts is 13 years old in 1988, living a carefree life on the Ojibwe reservation in North Dakota, when his family is shattered by a brutal attack against his mother that leaves her a shell of her former self. If we are safe, our country is safer." - Louise Erdrich in The New York Times "If our hearts are on the ground, our country has failed us all.
How tough those roots had clung." -from The Round House
"Always I kept going back to the day I dug the trees out of the foundation of our house. "This novel will have you reading at warp speed to see what happens next" ( Star Tribune). "A preeminent tale in an essential American saga" ( Booklist, starred review). "Erdrich threads a gripping mystery and multilayered portrait of a community through a deeply affecting coming-of-age novel" ( O, The Oprah Magazine). "While Erdrich is known as a brilliant chronicler of the American Indian experience," writes Reader's Digest, "her insights into our family, community, and spiritual lives transcend any category." Erdrich's 14th novel, The Round House (Harper, 2012), tells the suspenseful tale of a 13-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.
This title is no longer available for programming after the 2021-2022 grant year.Īward-winning author and Minnesota bookstore owner Louise Erdrich hails from North Dakota and is a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians.
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