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National Book Award, Fiction, 2012 One Sunday in the springtime of 1988, a woman living on the booking in North Dakota is attacked. The facts of the criminal offense are gradual to surface as Geraldine Coutts is traumatized and reluctant to relive or show you what happened, either to the police or to her man, Bazil, and 13-year-old child, Joe. In a single day, Joe's life is irrevocably altered. He will try to cure his mom, but she'll not leave her bed and slips into an abyss of solitude. Progressively alone, Joe finds himself thrust prematurely into an adult world for which he is ill prepared. While his dad, who's a tribal judge, endeavors to wrest justice from a predicament that defies his initiatives, Joe becomes frustrated with the official investigation and models out along with his trustworthy friends, Cappy, Zack, and Angus, to get some good answers of his own. Their pursuit will take them first to the Circular House, a sacred space and place of worship for the Ojibwe. And this is only the beginning. Written with undeniable urgency, and illuminating the tough realities of modern life in a community where Ojibwe and white live uneasily alongside one another, The Circular House is an excellent and entertaining book, a masterpiece of literary fiction. Louise Erdrich embraces tragedy, the comic, a soul world quite definitely within the lives of her all-too-human personas, and an account of injustice that is, sadly, an authentic reflection of what happens in our own world today.
