Washington Post A powerful novel worth reading. Sunday Express Emotionally compelling.Joe is an incredibly endearing narrator, full of urgency and radiant candor.the story he tells transforms a sad, isolated crime into a revelation about how maturity alters our relationship with our parents, delivering us into new kinds of love and pain. The Observer Detailed and nuanced, it is Erdrich's portrayal of the Native American reservation that makes The Round House stand out as a work of literary fiction. is a gifted storyteller who brings all these characters and tales together with sureness and grace. Mail on Sunday A compelling coming-of-age story.

Sunday Telegraph A rare insight into the dilemma of an adolescent caught between two cultures. New York Times Erdrich has achieved an impressive trick a spellbinding read, an earnest message and fierce emotional punch. The Independent on Sunday The Round House showcases extraordinary ability to delineate the ties of love, resentment, need, duty and sympathy that bind families together. The Round House is an extraordinary, engrossing novel, which should live long in the memory. 'The novel showcases her extraordinary ability to delineate the ties of love, resentment, need, duty and sympathy that bind families together.a powerful novel.' -New York Times Their quest takes them first to the Round House, a sacred space and place of worship for the Ojibwe. While his father, a tribal judge, endeavors to wrest justice from a situation that defies his efforts, Joe becomes frustrated with the official investigation and sets out with his trusted friends, Cappy, Zack, and Angus, to get some answers of his own. Increasingly alone, Joe finds himself thrust prematurely into an adult world for which he is ill prepared. He tries to heal his mother, but she will not leave her bed and slips into an abyss of solitude. In one day, Joe's life is irrevocably transformed. The details of the crime are slow to surface because Geraldine Coutts is traumatized and reluctant to relive or reveal what happened, either to the police or to her husband, Bazil, and thirteen-year-old son, Joe. One Sunday in the spring of 1988, a woman living on a reservation in North Dakota is attacked. Winner of the 2012 National Book Award, Louise Erdrich's masterful novel is now available in a limited Olive Edition.

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