Louise Erdrich on 'The Round House'
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Louise Erdrich's latest novel, "The Round House," tells the story of a crime on a North Dakota reservation in 1988.
From the Publisher's Weekly review:
When tribal enrollment expert Geraldine Coutts is viciously attacked, her ordeal is made even more devastating by the legal ambiguities surrounding the location and perpetrator of the assault--did the attack occur on tribal, federal, or state land? Is the aggressor white or Indian? As Geraldine becomes enveloped by depression, her husband, Bazil (the tribal judge), and their 13-year-old son, Joe, try desperately to identify her assailant and bring him to justice. The teen quickly grows frustrated with the slow pace of the law, so Joe and three friends take matters into their own hands.
Erdrich joins The Daily Circuit to discuss her book.
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