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The Round House

Louise Erdrich

Start date: May 18, 2016

Finish date: May 20, 2016

Discussion: 2016 Challenge prompts

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A book with a protagonist who has your occupation...
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Apr 08, 2013 Debbie rated it really liked it

Shelves: realistic-fiction

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

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Feb 28, 2013 Kathy Wheeler rated it really liked it

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. ...more

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Jan 10, 2016 Emilie rated it liked it

Shelves: 2016-reading-challenge

2016 READING CHALLENGE: A book about a culture you're unfamiliar with ...more

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Apr 16, 2020 Melissa Wiebe rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: ebook, fiction, award-winner, mystery, first-nations-indigenous, crime, 2020, ownvoices, indigenous, louise-erdrich

#booklyreadathon My rating had a lot to do with the fact that it took me awhile to get through it and that I felt that the chapters were a bit too long; wished that they had been chopped up into smaller chunks, as I lost a lot of the storyline in those long chapters. The writing was beautiful and it was an excellent story; just was unable to follow it well

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Sep 01, 2021 Lindsey Stinson rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: own-it, fiction, digital

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

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