![]() ![]() I use the word “interrupts” but I don’t mean it negatively. Erdrich also interrupts the narrative later for a folktale/history told by an elderly relative of Joe’s named Mooshum. I liked how Erdrich stopped Joe’s narrative a third of the way through for “Linda’s story” which is engrossing in its own right while also shedding light into Joe’s story. ![]() One of my favorite side characters was Linda, a white woman who was raised on the reservation by an Ojibwe hospital staff member after her parents rejected her at birth for a congenital deformity. Erdrich lets a lot of light and kindness and even humor thread through the story, mainly in her depiction of the various characters that populate the reservation’s community. Throughout the summer, Joe grapples with the emotional aftershock of his irrevocably changed family, and also seeks to find the person who attacked his mother.Īlthough the premise of The Round House is grim, I wouldn’t say that this is a dark-toned novel overall. At the start of the novel, Joe’s mother is raped and nearly killed by a perpetrator she either won’t or can’t identify. ![]() ![]() In a nutshell: The Round House is about Joe, a 13-year-old boy living on a North Dakota reservation in 1988. ![]()
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