by Louise Erdrich
 
     One Sunday in the spring of 1988, a woman living on a reservation in North Dakota is attacked. The details of the crime are slow to surface as Geraldine Coutts is traumatized and reluctant to relive or reveal what happened, either to the police or to her husband, Bazil, and thirteen-year-old son, Joe. Increasingly alone, Joe finds himself thrust prematurely into an adult world for which he is ill prepared. While his father, who is a tribal judge, endeavors to wrest justice from a situation that defies his efforts, Joe becomes frustrated with the official investigation and sets out with his trusted friends, Cappy, Zack, and Angus, to get some answers of his own. Their quest takes them first to the Round House, a sacred space and place of worship for the Ojibwe. And this is only the beginning.
     One of the most revered novelists of our time, Louise Erdrich’s new book transports readers to the a reservation in North Dakota. It is an exquisitely told story of a boy on the cusp of manhood who seeks justice and understanding in the wake of a terrible crime that upends and forever transforms his family. Riveting and suspenseful, arguably the most accessible novel to date from the creator of Love Medicine, The Beet Queen, and The Bingo Palace, Erdrich’s The Round House is a page-turning masterpiece of literary fiction—at once a powerful coming-of-age story, a mystery, and a tender, moving novel of family, history, and culture.

 

July 1st

Set against the backdrop of the totalitarian North Korean regime, The Orphan Master's Son is the expansive story of the title character's surreal experiences both inside and outside North Korea. Adam Johnson—a professor at Stanford—used first-hand testimony from defectors when constructing this novel which has drawn comparisons to Orwell's 1984.  Winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the book traces the journey of North Korean Jun Do, who for years lives according to the violent dictates of the state as a tunnel expert who can fight in the dark, a kidnapper, radio operator, tenuous hero, and foreign dignitary before eventually talking his fate into his own hands.  In this epic, critically acclaimed tour de force, Adam Johnson provides a riveting portrait of a world rife with hunger, corruption, and casual cruelty but also camaraderie, stolen moments of beauty, and love.  (Timely choice considering the current world situation?)

 

 

 

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