Like most of the write's other works, it is set on an unnamed Indian reservation in North Dakota.
It won the National Book Award for in 2012.
Wassama Round House |
In North Dakota in the spring of 1988, 13 year-old Ojibwe
Joe Coutts, the only son of aging parents, learns that his mother,
Geraldine, has been brutally raped
near the round house, a spiritual place on reservation land that is
surrounded by land under multiple jurisdictions.
Joe and his friends go to the round house to try to find evidence that the police might have missed.
Fo r information about the book club, please contact Danièle Nibourel at nibourel@free.fr
Joe and his friends go to the round house to try to find evidence that the police might have missed.
Fo r information about the book club, please contact Danièle Nibourel at nibourel@free.fr