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She lives in minnesota, where she owns the bookstore birchbark books. The round house the round house won the national book award for fiction. Erdrich returns to the north dakota ojibwe community she introduced in the plague of doves 2008akin but at a remove from the community she created in the continuum of books from love medicine to the red convertiblein this story about the aftermath of a rape over a decade has passed. The round house, by louise erdrich louise erdrich s latest novel examines the way violence can give rise to violence, as a young native american man pursues justice for his mother. When she was young, louises father encouraged her writing by giving her a nickel every time she. The attacker asked mayla where the money was and threatened to kill mayla and geraldine by pouring gasoline on.
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