![]() ![]() Joe has a deeply wise and elegiac voice, and we learn quickly that he’s actually speaking to us from decades on, when he, too, has become a judge on the rez. Her central character, 13-year-old Joe Coutts, is the son of a tribal judge in this revisit to Erdrich’s fictional Ojibwe Indian reservation, last seen in The Plague of Doves. By contrast, and with her signature courage, American writer Louise Erdrich ( The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse and The Plague of Doves), with her 12th novel, has given us a book that’s almost dauntingly emotional. American readers like to puzzle over plots, wring hands over whodunit, twitch and flinch at surprises and violence. Bestseller lists dangle titles that appeal to the brain or, even more popularly, the gut. ![]() Rare is the novel that speaks to the heart. The Round House won the 2012 National Book Award for fiction on November 14, 2012. ![]()
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