The abandoned Round House is where tribal ceremonies were secretly conducted in the days when they were illegal. The case is complicated by the place where the rape took place. Then his mother is raped and almost murdered, and Joe finds himself compelled to identify and track down her attacker. He spends most of his time with his three best friends, swimming, riding bikes, discussing Star Trek: The Next Generation and stealing the occasional beer. Joe Coutts, 13, is the only child of older parents, his father a judge in the Indian court and his mother a tribal enrollment specialist. The story takes place in the summer of 1988.
Readers unfamiliar with Erdrich’s work will find that the novel stands alone as an independent work, while those familiar with it will see connections to her other novels and stories and their characters. The Round House, which is both a riveting mystery and a moving coming-of-age story, is set in this same world. During the past two decades, American Indian novelist Louise Erdrich has been filling in the history of a small, fictional corner of North Dakota where an Indian reservation and a little town whose citizens are descendents of German and Swedish settlers intersect.
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