The Round House

Winner of the US National Book Award 2012
'A powerful novel' New York Times
'An extraordinary, engrossing novel, which should live long in the memory'
Independent on Sunday

One Sunday in the spring of 1988, a woman living on a reservation in North
Dakota is attacked. The details of the crime are slow to surface because
Geraldine Coutts is traumatized and reluctant to relive or reveal what
happened, either to the police or to her husband and thirteen-year-old son,
Joe. As Geraldine slips into an abyss of solitude, young Joe finds himself
thrust prematurely into an adult world for which he is ill prepared.

While his father, a tribal judge, endeavors to wrest justice from a situation
that defies his efforts, Joe becomes frustrated with the official
investigation and sets out with his trusted friends, Cappy, Zack, and Angus,
to find some answers of his own.

The Round House is a page-turning masterpiece -- at once a powerful coming-of-
age story, a mystery, and a tender novel of family, history, and culture by
one of the most revered novelists of our time.