![]() ![]() ![]() And at that point, “The Round House” becomes a thriller, but one with literary, not just whodunit, muscle, as Ms. But an Indian reservation - they call it “the rez” - is a small world, and it doesn’t take Joe long to learn who tried to kill his mother and why the attacker is able to elude the law and eventually walk freely about the reservation and the town.Ī 13-year-old boy with a good mind and a loving heart is not going to be held back for long, and soon Joe and his best friend, Cappy, are talking revenge and retribution. His mother won’t talk, and his father won’t tell him what little he knows. Her lawyer-judge husband tries, within the boundaries of the law he both reveres and lives by, to learn the identity of his wife’s attacker but is frustrated at every turn. Gerry is so traumatized that she is unable - unwilling? - to tell her husband and only child who did it.īoth in the hospital and for a very long time once she’s home, she will not reveal why she went to the office (where she’s a tribal enrollment specialist) on a Sunday to get a specific file. She blotted them away with a gauze-wrapped fist. Tears leaked from the corners of her eyes. ![]()
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