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I wish I could give this 3.5 stars. The book does a great job at telling a story from modern Native American perspective. So few writers can express this segment's views and needs and wants and dreams accurately. It is one depressing story however. I got so overwhelmed by the scope of the problems in the book that I had to put it down for awhile. I also found myself with white guilt for what has been done and is being done to this group of people.
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I do think this book is amazing.Very hard to read at times, because of the plot, but the characters are so incredibly realized sometimes because of how true they are to real people, people I can imagine caught in the awful circumstances of their lives, and sometimes because they are so fictionally compelling. Linda and Lark, the unlikely twins, separated at birth, propel the story in a way that seems like a fairytale, or some grim legend. Having lived and worked for six months on a reservation i
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October 2014 (2nd read)
Note: prepare to read the word “complex” and all its iterations a bunch of times in this review.
Reading The Round House for the second time definitely allowed me to more greatly appreciate the complexity of the story. I noticed, for example, the way the stories told by Mooshum are emotionally powerful and tragic, but still seem mythical and distanced in a way completely different from how what happened to Geraldine is portrayed: deeply intimate, complex, and somehow more m ...more
Note: prepare to read the word “complex” and all its iterations a bunch of times in this review.
Reading The Round House for the second time definitely allowed me to more greatly appreciate the complexity of the story. I noticed, for example, the way the stories told by Mooshum are emotionally powerful and tragic, but still seem mythical and distanced in a way completely different from how what happened to Geraldine is portrayed: deeply intimate, complex, and somehow more m ...more
Geraldine Coutts, an Ojibwe woman, lives on a reservation in North Dakota with her husband and teenaged son, Joe. Joe narrates the tale of the day his mother is brutally attacked and its aftermath. Geraldine knows the identity of the man who raped her, but is too afraid to tell either the white or tribal police who did it. Joe teams up with his friends to investigate the crime and to try to bring his mother's attacker to justice.
The writing is absolutely beautiful and the story, although it mea ...more
The writing is absolutely beautiful and the story, although it mea ...more
This was an excellent book -- the first of Erdrich's that I've been able to finish. She draws the line so well between 13 year old Joe's old life before his mother his brutally raped and his new life after that event.
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The tragic plot of this incredibly well written novel centers on the awful fact that if a non native person commits a crime on tribal land he cannot be convicted of the crime. The tribe has no jurisdiction in such a case nor does the federal government or the state. The majority of sexual assaults against native women are perpetrated by white men. This book takes that awful injustice and puts the seeking of justice into a 13 year old boys hands. When his mom is brutally attacked and his stable f
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Powerful Storytelling
As usual, Are rich weaves a powerful and deep story. There's just so much happening, it's incredible how many layers there are to these stories. They also come with a particular heaviness. ...more
As usual, Are rich weaves a powerful and deep story. There's just so much happening, it's incredible how many layers there are to these stories. They also come with a particular heaviness. ...more
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