The Round House by Louise Erdrich
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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 as 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.
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