![]() ![]() ![]() As the book's afterword makes clear, it is a plot directly informed by the real impotence of American law to stop sexual violence against Native women. What follows is a detective story, as Joe and his father piece together the crime, struggle to support Geraldine and each other, and languish in the bizarre legal limbo that exists for "major" crimes committed by non-Natives on tribal land. ![]() The novel is narrated by a 13-year old boy, Joe, who (with his father, a tribal court judge) discovers in the book's first pages that his mother (Geraldine, the tribe's enrollment officer) has been viciously raped. Although its setting is familiar (North Dakota, 1988), and although we recognize characters and families from earlier books, "The Round House" marks a step away from the "magical" worlds to which Erdrich's readers have grown accustomed. ![]() In "The Round House," this is true in a new and startling way. ![]()
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