Tuesday’s tiny review: Louise Erdrich’s The Round House

The Round House book jacket

If you ever read the “By the Book” section of the New York Times Sunday Book Review, you’d know that when the interviewee is asked, “Who are your favorite authors?”, it’s not uncommon to see Louise Erdrich’s name on the list – and yet none of her novels were on my shelf.  It’s a terrible oversight on my part (among many) that I was anxious to remedy.  The Round House was her latest, had received the National Book Award for Fiction (2012), and so I picked it up and finished it last week.  Here’s … [Read more...]