![]() ![]() Thank you for giving it a wider audience.”Įrdrich was raised in Wahpeton, North Dakota, on the North Dakota-Minnesota state line. She said she wanted to acknowledge “the grace and endurance of native women.” She added: “This is a book about a huge case of injustice ongoing on reservations. Erdrich accepted the award in part in her native language The New York Times writes: The Round House is Erdrich’s fourteenth novel, and it was selected for the award from a competitive group of finalists, including literary heavyweights Junot Díaz and Dave Eggers and two first-time novelists, Kevin Powers and Ben Fountain. Her book, The Round House, follows a boy living on a Native American reservation in North Dakota as he investigates an attack on his mother. ![]() Last week, Louise Erdrich won the 2012 National Book Award for fiction. Author Louise Erdrich at her store, BirchBark Books, in Minneapolis. ![]()
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