One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels

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.

Author: Louise Erdrich
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper
Published: 10/02/2012
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.40w x 1.50d
ISBN: 9780062065247

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.1
Point Value: 17
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 156731 / Round House


Award: 2012 National Book Awards Winner - Fiction
Award: 2013 Alex Awards Winner - Adult/For Young Adults
Award: 2013 ALA Notable Books Winner - Fiction
Award: 2013 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence Finalist - Fiction
Award: 2013 Indies Choice Book Awards Winner - Fiction
Award: 2013 Nautilus Award Winner - Multicultural
Award: 2013 Minnesota Book Award Winner - Novel
Award: 2013 Midwest Booksellers' Choice Award Finalist - Fiction


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 05/15/2012 pg. 54
Publishers Weekly 07/16/2012 pg. 140
Booklist 08/01/2012 pg. 25
Library Journal 08/01/2012 pg. 83
Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2012
People Weekly 10/01/2012 pg. 46
Entertainment Weekly 10/05/2012 pg. 79
New Yorker (The) 10/14/2012 pg. 9
Shelf Awareness 10/16/2012
People Weekly 10/29/2012 pg. 47
New York Times Book Review 10/21/2012 pg. 26
Publishers Weekly Best Books 11/05/2012 pg. 22
Entertainment Weekly 11/30/2012 pg. 77
NY Times Notable Bks of Year 12/02/2012 pg. 25
Christian Century 12/12/2012 pg. 23
Christian Century 12/26/2012 pg. 35
Booklist Editors Choice/Adult 01/01/2013 pg. 9
New York Review of Books 03/07/2013 pg. 17

About the Author
Erdrich, Louise: -

Louise Erdrich, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, is the author of many novels as well as volumes of poetry, children's books, and a memoir of early motherhood. Her novel The Round House won the National Book Award for Fiction. Love Medicine and LaRose received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Erdrich lives in Minnesota with her daughters and is the owner of Birchbark Books, a small independent bookstore. Her most recent book, The Night Watchman, won the Pulitzer Prize. A ghost lives in her creaky old house.