The Round House American Classics Edition A Novel

"Erdrich skillfully makes Joe's coming-of-age both universal and specific...the story is also ripe with detail about reservation life, and with her rich cast of characters, Erdrich provides flavor, humor and depth." - Library Journal, Starred Review

"Erdrich threads a gripping mystery and multilayered portrait of a community through a deeply affecting coming-of-age novel." - O, the Oprah Magazine

"A sweeping, suspenseful outing from this prizewinning, generation-spanning chronicler of her Native American people, the Ojibwe of the northern plains...a sumptuous tale." - Elle

"Moving, complex, and surprisingly uplifting. . . likely to be dubbed the Native American To Kill a Mockingbird." - Parade

"The story pulses with urgency as she [Erdrich] probes the moral and legal ramifications of a terrible act of violence." - Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

"Riveting. . . . One of Erdrich's most suspenseful novels. . . . It vividly portrays both the deep tragedy and crazy comedy of life." - BookPage

"The Round House will inevitably draw comparisons to Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, but Joe is no Scout Finch-like observer. He's an older, more involved participant, shaped by his culture and influenced by ideas of justice from the warriors of Ojibwe legend." - Kansas City Star

"While Erdrich is known as a brilliant chronicler of the American Indian experience, her insights into our family, community, and spiritual lives transcend any category." - Reader's Digest

"The novel showcases her [Erdrich's] extraordinary ability to delineate the ties of love, resentment, need, duty and sympathy that bind families together...[a] powerful novel." - Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

"Erdrich has given us a multitude of narrative voices and stories. Never before has she given us a novel with a single narrative voice so smart, rich and full of surprises as she has in The Round House. . . and, I would argue, her best so far." - NPR's All Thing's Considered

"Haunting...a bittersweet coming-of-age tale...tender but unsentimental and buoyed by subtle wit" - People

"Joe may be one of Erdrich's best-drawn characters; he's conflicted, feisty one moment, scared and disappointed the next. The Round House will inevitably draw comparisons to Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird." - Miami Herald

"Louise Erdrich's prose is spare, precise, smooth as polished stone. Her books are rich with literary muscle." - Austin American-Statesman

"The story draws the reader unstoppably page by page." - Seattle Times

"A riveting mystery and a moving coming-of-age story." - Columbia Dispatch

"Filled with stunning and poetic language, this new novel ranks among Erdrich's best work." - Martha Stewart Living

"Erdrich's bittersweet contemplation of love and friendship, morality and generativity...result in a tender, tough coming-of-age tale." - Cleveland Plain Dealer

"A powerful human story. . . .By boring deeply into one person's darkest episode, Erdrich hits the bedrock truth about a whole community." - New York Times Book Review

"Each new Erdrich novel adds new layers of pathos and comedy, earthiness and spiritual questing, to her priceless multigenerational drama. THE ROUND HOUSE is one of her best-concentrated, suspenseful, and morally profound." - Boston Globe

"A stunning piece of architecture. It is carefully, lovingly, disarmingly constructed. Even the digressions demand strict attention." - Newsday

"Wise and suspenseful...Erdrich's voice as well as her powers of insight and imagination fully infuse this novel...She writes so perceptively and brilliantly about the adolescent passion for justice that one is transported northward to her home territory." - Chicago Tribune

"A gripping mystery with a moral twist: Revenge might be the harshest punishment, but only for the victims." - Entertainment Weekly

"The Round House is filled with stunning language that recalls shades of Faulkner, García Márquez and Toni Morrison. Deeply moving, this novel ranks among Erdrich's best work, and it is impossible to forget." - USA Today

"Erdrich never shields the reader or Joe from the truth...She writes simply, without flourish." - Philadelphia Inquirer

"An artfully balanced mystery, thriller and coming-of-age story. . . this novel will have you reading at warp speed to see what happens next." - Minneapolis Star Tribune

"A beautifully warm and wise novel...intensely involving...Erdrich's profound intimacy with her characters electrifies this stunning and devastating tale of hate crimes and vengeance...Erdrich covers a vast spectrum of history, cruel loss, and bracing realizations. A preeminent tale in an essential American saga." - Booklist, Starred Review

"Emotionally compelling...Joe is an incredibly endearing narrator, full of urgency and radiant candor...the story he tells transforms a sad, isolated crime into a revelation about how maturity alters our relationship with our parents, delivering us into new kinds of love and pain." - Ron Charles, Washington Post