Even in this description of a seemingly calm and bucolic task, we can hear hints of the violence and difficulty of the events soon to come, as Joe pries loose the truth of a long and painful story. They had grown into the unseen wall and it was difficult to pry them loose," Joe tells us. "Small trees had attacked my parents' house at the foundation. A flabby, fervid melodrama of a high-strung Southern family from Conroy (The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline), whose penchant for overwriting once again. The novel opens in Joe's 13th summer - in 1988 - as we see him and his father at work in the garden of their house on the North Dakota reservation. Paul Emmel For nearly three decades, Louise Erdrich has been populating her novels with indelible characters from her North Dakota. The narrator is an Ojibwe lawyer named Joe Coutts, son of tribal judge Bazil Coutts and tribal clerk Geraldine Coutts. Louise Erdrich’s The Round House is her 14th novel. It's her latest novel, and, I would argue, her best so far. Its another stellar novel from one of my all-time favorite writers. Never before has she given us a novel with a single narrative voice so smart, rich and full of surprises as she has in The Round House. The Round House deservedly won the National Book Award for fiction in 2012. In more than a dozen books of fiction - mostly novel length - that make up a large part of her already large body of work, Erdrich has given us a multitude of narrative voices and stories.
I've devoted many hours in my life to reading, and among these hours many of them belong to the creations of novelist Louise Erdrich. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Round House Author Louise Erdrich
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