Review: The Round House by Louise Erdrich

Louise Erdich has taken personal experience growing up on the Ojibwe reservation in North Dakota and transported her readers there. The Round House is a story of a thirteen-year old Ojibwe boy in 1988 seeking justice after his mother is brutally raped. The plot and themes tell a story that are all too familiar for any Indigenous person in the states: violence against women, tribal identity, tribal/local/state/federal jurisdictional issues, and all around racism/inequality/injustices. This won a National Book Award when it was published--oh and she wrote it while dealing with cancer. She is a badass! Read it.

Rating: 4

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