A mother is brutally raped by a man on their North Dakota reservation where she lives with her husband & thirteen-year-old son Joe Traumatized & afraid she takes to her bed & refuses to talk to anyone
- including the police While her husband a tribal judge endeavours to wrest justice from a situation that defies his keenest efforts young Joe's world shifts on its child's axis Confused & nursing a complicated fury Joe sets out to find answers that might put his mother's attacker behind bars
- & make everything right again Or so he hopes The Round House is a poignant & abundantly humane story of a young boy pitched prematurely into an unjust adult world It is a story of vivid survival; & tt confirms Louise Erdrich as one of America's most distinctive contemporary novelists