A thirteen year old boy is faced with a tremendous burden when his mom is raped and brutally beaten. Forced to grow up, he is not satisfied with the existing justice system, and he wants revenge. He is really not mature enough to understand the consequences of actions and he reacts mostly with emoti...
This book was certainly eye opening. In 1988 Joe's mom is the victim of an attack at the Native American Reservation where they live. Joe is 13. He understands and has pride in his people's culture and history. His parents have always been a solid part of their community and he has been taught to ch...
I read books like this, coming-of-age or bildungsroman, and think of what my own tale would have been - overcome by cable outages or lacking enough pocket change to complete a year's set of baseball cards. Something a bit too close to nothing to please Scout Finch, I think.The Round House is a class...
Wow. I enjoyed this book thoroughly and could not put it down (as evidenced by the just over 24 hour turn around despite the kids being home from school and the 481 pages in this novel).The best description I have is that it is a most compelling crime novel, but it is also so much more that it seem...
With many thanks to my friend, Will Byrnes, I read The Round House and while stingy with five stars, this book was without question, five stars. If I could give it more, I would.I had prior knowledge of the problem of crimes against women on U. S. Indian Reservations specifically the inability of d...
The Round House by Louise Erdrich is the story of Joe Coutts as his life is turned upside-down after his mother is brutally attacked on beautiful sunny Sunday afternoon. As Joe desperately searches for a way to heal his family after the tragedy, readers are taken on a journey to life on a reservatio...
Louise Erdrich is, in my opinion, one of the best contemporary writers. One of the aspects of Erdrich's writing is that her narratives are loose and sprawling, yet the language is always tight and lyrical. She has done much to help readers consider the position of Native Americans in a country th...
The National Book Award Winner for Fiction (2012)My rating: 3.5 of 5 starsA copy of The Round House was provided to me by Harper Collins for review purposes.'The sun fell onto the kitchen floor in golden pools, but it was an ominous radiance, like the piercing light behind a western cloud.'In 1988, ...
I'm not sure how to write this review. This is a book in that made me forget I was reading and I resented every interruption or pause. I missed my subway stop while reading and stayed up too late to finish. It was worth it.Set in the 1980s, the story is told by Antone Bazil Coutts (the second), n...
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