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The Round House is a good read. It is hard to say I enjoyed the book because of the subject matter. But the subject matter needs to be told and talked about. I needed to keep reading this story because the young boy, Joe, age 13, who told the story. The author did a great job of letting us into the feelings of Joe after the tragedy that befalls their family. His close knit extended family, friends and community are vital to his coping with this tragedy. I also have a better picture of what the Native American has had to endure since the white man took over their land and pushed them onto reservations. I would highly recommend reading this book.


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The Round House Louise Erdrich 9780062065247 Books Reviews

Author Louise Erdrich, a member of the Chippewa (Ojibwa) nation, here writes one of her most powerful and emotionally involving novels. Though it starts as a crime story on the reservation, it quickly becomes an intense search for justice on all levels. It is also an examination of the lives of her characters, both old and young, as they face the challenges of reservation life. Their lives, as she shows in this novel, are seriously restricted by 1988, when this novel's action takes place, and any Native American who wants to honor the "old ways" on the reservation must now survive on infertile lands which cannot support him. Their culture has been seriously compromised by the arrival of Catholic missionaries who have weaned them away from their myths and traditions. Significantly, legal jurisdiction over crimes involving Native Americans now involves tribal officials, state police, and even the FBI.

In a powerful opening scene, filled with symbols and portents, thirteen-year-old Antone Basil Coutts (Joe), only child and namesake of Judge Coutts and his wife Geraldine, is helping his father to pull tiny seedlings from cracks in the foundation of their house, awaiting Geraldine's return from her office. When she finally arrives at home, she is almost unrecognizable, so badly beaten she can hardly see, reeking of gasoline and so traumatized by rape and other crimes that she has become mute. Young Joe knows that it will be up to him and his father to identify who has done this. They begin to study his father's old cases searching clues.

Joe is still a child, however, and though his empathetic father wants to protect him as much as possible, Joe becomes obsessed with getting his mother "back," determined to find and punish the rapist on his own. These tensions add drama and meaning to the novel, and Joe's contacts with others, both in his family and outside it, expand the scope. The sweat lodge ceremony is described, the extortion of elderly Indians by a white-owned supermarket on Indian land is detailed, the raucous and sexy (and hilarious) talk of elderly family members is recorded, the "flirting" of a stripper living with Joe's uncle is tension-filled and emotional, the appearance of ghosts to Joe, and the efforts of a local priest, a former soldier injured in Lebanon in 1983, are all described to powerful effect, keeping the interest and involvement of the reader at high pitch.

As in her other novels, Erdrich provides a sense of continuity by including characters from other books in this one - including the priestly Nanapush (from Tracks), who was an inspiration to Mooshum, thought now to be one hundred six years old in this novel. Mooshum, whose story is told here, was also a main character in The Plague of Doves, a book which also includes Judge Antone Basil Coutts, father of this novel's main character Joe, and Corwin Peace, father of Joe's friend Zach. By repeating these characters through successive generations, Erdrich provides a genealogy and sense of history which add to the sense of time and place, and highlight the changes, not all of them good, taking place within the community. The novel, one of Erdrich's best, will keep serious readers totally engaged with its sensitive descriptions and insights, even as those interested in just a "good story" will celebrate the action, excitement, and the issues it raises.
I initially gave “The Round House” 3 stars. It is a good read, with some excellent characterization and I read it at a decent pace and enjoyed it while doing so. However, when I was done with it, I was like “well, that was good, what’s next?” I was hoping for it to induce more than that in me. After discussing it with my book club, I moved up my opinion of it. I am content to give it 4 stars in the end.
The good thing about this novel is that the suspense builds nicely, the story is an interesting one, and Erdrich is a smart enough writer not to harangue the reader with “issues”. She could easily have made this a novel about legal jurisdiction on Indian reservations, the effects of colonization on Native Americans hundreds of years after the fact, the impact of Catholicism on native populations, etc. However, to do so would have been to write a boring and pedantic novel. Instead, she has written a really interesting story that touches on (without whining or preaching) those topics in the context of a much more interesting human story that I doubt would isolate any reader. Kudos to her for that.
One of the joys of this text is the unexpected humor (it is quite funny at times) and the author’s wonderful grasp of teenage boys. The characterization of the protagonist, 13-year-old Joe, and his three friends is well done. The book is set in 1988. I was a teenage boy in the 80s once, I recognized myself in many of the elements and characteristics she imbues the characters with in this text. The book is filled with real people, and there were times I was unexpectedly moved by some subtle element Erdrich created within a character. This happens in real life, and when novels capture that it pleases me to no end.
I have some small quibbles with the conclusion of the novel, but overall it is an enjoyable read. Don’t read the critical blurbs printed in the book They overpraise “The Round House” to a ridiculous degree. It is a very good novel, it tells a poignant tale and will give you something to reflect on. Take it at that and enjoy.
I am a high school teacher and taught this book this past year.The Round House is a complex, tragic story that drew my high seniors in and spit them out changed forever. They loved all of the characters, sympatized with their struggles, recognized their own courage and confusion in Joe, and debated his choices vociferously in class. Several said it was their favorite book from all the books they had ever read. One girl asked the school librarian if she could keep the copy she had read for class because it was filled with all of her notes on sticky notes and she wanted to save all of her thoughts when she was reading the novel. I ordered this copy from for that student to turn in to the school library instead. How is that for a testimonial to a book?
The Round House is a good read. It is hard to say I enjoyed the book because of the subject matter. But the subject matter needs to be told and talked about. I needed to keep reading this story because the young boy, Joe, age 13, who told the story. The author did a great job of letting us into the feelings of Joe after the tragedy that befalls their family. His close knit extended family, friends and community are vital to his coping with this tragedy. I also have a better picture of what the Native American has had to endure since the white man took over their land and pushed them onto reservations. I would highly recommend reading this book.