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The Round House

Louise Erdrich

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Apr 16, 2018 Amanda up North rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, native-american, states-north-dakota

I shied away from Louise Erdrich after reading The Plague of Doves some time ago, I wasn't a fan. But I've heard positive mention of The Round House several times lately, had a copy, and finally decided to give it a go.
The two books have character and story ties, but my reading experience was very different. The Round House is suspenseful, I found it beautifully written even when it wasn't to my taste.
I loved the Coutts family, Geraldine, Bazil, and young Joe.
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Mar 11, 2025 Christina rated it it was amazing

Erdrich knows how to bring you into a setting a cast of characters and weaves a powerful story.

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Oct 18, 2019 Tammy rated it liked it · review of another edition

Not an easy read, yet compelling. I was really intrigued by the legal and jurisdictional issues. The narrator retelling the events through his memory of being a 13 year old boy brought a reflective nuance to the story that often clashed with exactly what you might expect a 13 year old to say and do.

I won't complain about the lack of quotation marks...

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