The Round House

Our book club will be discussing Louise Erdrich's latest novel, The Round House this month. This book was a finalist for the National Book Award and has garnered a great deal of praise (although so many books get great reviews, it's hard to know which are really worth it).

After reading The Barbarian Nurseries, this one let me down. I so much loved Erdrich's The Master Butchers Singing Club, and I had great hopes for this one. It was fine and had some interesting information about the judicial system on Native American land, but the characters did not give me a strong enough reason to keep turning pages. Knowing that we will discuss it was the impetus that I needed to finish it.