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The round house / Louise Erdrich.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel Fiction 5866
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Erdrich, Louise, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indian women--Crimes against--Fiction.
- Indian women.
- Ojibwa Indians--North Dakota--Fiction.
- Ojibwa Indians.
- Indian reservations--Fiction.
- Indian reservations.
- Indian families--Fiction.
- Indian families.
- Life change events--Fiction.
- Life change events.
- Indian women--Crimes against.
- North Dakota.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Erdrich, Louise (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [10], 321, [3] pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- [Advance reader's edition].
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Harper, [2012]
- Summary:
- When his mother, a tribal enrollment specialist living on a reservation in North Dakota, slips into an abyss of depression after being brutally attacked, 13-year-old Joe Coutts sets out with his three friends to find the person that destroyed his family. 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 as Geraldine Coutts is traumatized and reluctant to relive or reveal what happened, either to the police or to her husband, Bazil, and son, Joe. Increasingly alone, Joe finds himself thrust prematurely into an adult world for which he is ill prepared. While his father, who is 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 get some answers of his own. Their quest takes them first to the Round House, a sacred space and place of worship for the Ojibwe. And this is only the beginning.
- Contents:
- 1988
- Lonely among us
- Justice
- Loud as a whisper
- The naked now
- Datalore
- Angel one
- Hide and Q
- The big good-bye
- Skin of evil
- The child.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy inscribed to Caroline F. Schimmel by the author on title leaf.
- ISBN:
- 9780062213877
- 0062213873
- OCLC:
- 1277288551
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