Quotes from book
The Round House

Name: The Round House
Author: Louise Erdrich

The Round House is a novel by American writer Louise Erdrich first published on October 2, 2012 by the HarperCollins publishing company. The Round House is Erdrich’s 14th novel and is part of her "justice trilogy" of novels, with Plague of Doves released in 2008 and LaRose in 2016. The Round House follows the story of Joe Coutts, a 13-year-old boy who has become frustrated with the poor investigation into his mother’s gruesome attack and sets out to find his mother’s attacker with the help of his best friends, Cappy, Argus, and Zack. Like most of Erdrich's other works, The Round House is set on an Ojibwe reservation in North Dakota.The Round House won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2012.

“Women don't realize how much store men set on the regularity of their habits. We absorb their comings and goings into our bodies, their rhythms into our bones.”

Louise Erdrich book The Round House

Source: The Round House

“Now that I knew fear, I also knew it was not permanent. As powerful as it was, its grip on me would loosen. It would pass.”

Louise Erdrich book The Round House

Source: The Round House

“We are never so poor that we cannot bless another human being, are we? So it is that every evil, whether moral or material, results in good. You'll see.”

Louise Erdrich book The Round House

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“I stood there in the shadowed doorway thinking with my tears. Yes, tears can be thoughts, why not?”

Louise Erdrich book The Round House

Source: The Round House