The Round House by Louise Erdrich
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Reading Round House was a warm and wonderful three-day weekend with an old friend. I'd read much of Erdrich's early work, but nothing recent. I'll not stay away so long in the future.

Erdrich is an expert at imagining and breathing life into a whole community of personalities, weaving together their struggles, their laughter and their pain.

In this novel she shows us the depth of a young man's frustration with the extent the legal system is able to bestow justice and more significantly peace on his broken family.

Along the way a touching often hysterically funny coming-of-age story unfolds. And so too the story of community and culture forged in a history on injustice. A lovely and perfect novel.

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