The novel is set in 1988 and is narrated by thirteen-year-old Joe Coutts as he attempts to avenge his mother after she is brutally raped. The Round House was originally published in 2012. The Round House won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2012. Like most of Erdrich's other works, The Round House is set on an Ojibwe reservation in North Dakota.

The Round House follows the story of Joe Coutts, a 13-year-old boy who is frustrated with the poor investigation into his mother's gruesome attack and sets out to find his mother's attacker with the help of his best friends, Cappy, Angus, and Zack. The Round House is Erdrich's 14th novel and is part of her 'justice trilogy' of novels, which includes The Plague of Doves released in 2008 and LaRose in 2016. Even in this description of a seemingly calm and bucolic task, we can hear hints of the violence and difficulty of the events soon to come, as Joe pries loose the truth of a long and painful story.The Round House is a novel by the American writer Louise Erdrich first published on Octoby HarperCollins. They had grown into the unseen wall and it was difficult to pry them loose,' Joe tells us. 'Small trees had attacked my parents' house at the foundation. The novel opens in Joe's 13th summer - in 1988 - as we see him and his father at work in the garden of their house on the North Dakota reservation. The narrator is an Ojibwe lawyer named Joe Coutts, son of tribal judge Bazil Coutts and tribal clerk Geraldine Coutts. It's her latest novel, and, I would argue, her best so far. Never before has she given us a novel with a single narrative voice so smart, rich and full of surprises as she has in The Round House.

In more than a dozen books of fiction - mostly novel length - that make up a large part of her already large body of work, Erdrich has given us a multitude of narrative voices and stories. I've devoted many hours in my life to reading, and among these hours many of them belong to the creations of novelist Louise Erdrich. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Round House Author Louise Erdrich

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