The Round House

Introduction

Exterior, Wassama Round House

The Round House is a novel by the American writer Louise Erdrich first published on October 2, 2012 by HarperCollins.[1] 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.[2] 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. Like most of Erdrich's other works, The Round House is set on an Ojibwe reservation in North Dakota.[3]

The Round House won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2012.[4]


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