The Round House is the 2017/2018 selection for UO's Common Reading program. Told from the point of view of a 13-year old Ojibwe boy, this coming of age novel follows his story as he grapples with the rape of his mother. For more information about the book or to read discussions related to it, check out the following resources:
Louise Erdrich is the author of fifteen novels, several children's books, and more that often highlight the lives of Native Americans. She is also the owner of Birchbark Books, an independent bookstore in Minneapolis. For more information about the author, please check out the following resources:
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Freshman students receive a copy of the common reading book at IntroDUCKtion. Other students and faculty interested in reading this year's selection can purchase a copy at the UO bookstore or your preferred bookseller. The book is also available to check out through UO Libraries.
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The Round House won the National Book Award for fiction. One of the most revered novelists of our time--a brilliant chronicler of Native-American life--Louise Erdrich returns to the territory of her bestselling, Pulitzer Prize finalist The Plague of Doves with The Round House, transporting readers to the Ojibwe reservation in North Dakota. It is an exquisitely told story of a boy on the cusp of manhood who seeks justice and understanding in the wake of a terrible crime that upends and forever transforms his family. Riveting and suspenseful, arguably the most accessible novel to date from the creator of Love Medicine, The Beet Queen, and The Bingo Palace, Erdrich's The Round House is a page-turning masterpiece of literary fiction--at once a powerful coming-of-age story, a mystery, and a tender, moving novel of family, history, and culture.
These reviews offer a view of the critical discourse surrounding this book:
