Antone (Joe) Coutts: The protagonist of the novel is a 13-year-old boy named Joe who seeks out revenge against the man who raped his mother.

However, the significance of this North Dakota reservation, similar to the reservation in Erdrich's Love Medicine series, stems from her own upbringing as an Ojibwe child in North Dakota. The Round House, specifically, takes place in the same reservation as one of Erdrich's previous works, Plague of Doves, and the same one that appears in the conclusion to the trilogy, LaRose. Because of this, Erdrich's novels, including The Round House, are all primarily set in the same fictional location centered around the people who lived there throughout multiple generations.

Įrdrich was heavily inspired by the works of William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha novels. Erdrich wrote the novel while diagnosed with cancer, and has stated in interviews that the diagnosis impacted her productivity and passion for writing, though she was still able to write and publish The Round House, as well as a children's book and a new, revised version of her novel The Antelope Wife. The novel is set in 1988 and is narrated by thirteen-year-old Joe Coutts as he attempts to avenge his mother after she is brutally raped. The Round House was originally published in 2012. The Round House won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2012.

Like most of Erdrich's other works, The Round House is set on an Ojibwe reservation in North Dakota. The Round House follows the story of Joe Coutts, a 13-year-old boy who is 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, Angus, and Zack. The Round House is Erdrich's 14th novel and is part of her 'justice trilogy' of novels, which includes The Plague of Doves released in 2008 and LaRose in 2016. The Round House is a novel by the American writer Louise Erdrich first published on Octoby HarperCollins.

The Round House by Louise Erdrich