By now I'm certain you've explored the benefits of your afternoon relaxing session. It is imperative that you find quiet time each day, especially late afternoon, to recharge your batteries. This will enable you to complete your evening tasks with less pain.
Before resting, I prompt you to read a few pages of Louise Erdrich's The Round House. It will engage your senses, allowing you the freedom to wisk away to another place and another time.
Book Description
Release Date: October 2, 2012
National Book Award Winner
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. In one
day, Joe's life is irrevocably transformed. He tries to heal his mother, but
she will not leave her bed and slips into an abyss of solitude. 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.
Written with undeniable urgency, and illuminating the harsh realities of
contemporary life in a community where Ojibwe and white live uneasily together,
The Round House is a brilliant and entertaining novel, a masterpiece of
literary fiction. Louise Erdrich embraces tragedy, the comic, a spirit world
very much present in the lives of her all-too-human characters, and a tale of
injustice that is, unfortunately, an authentic reflection of what happens in
our own world today. - Amazon
Before resting, I prompt you to read a few pages of Louise Erdrich's The Round House. It will engage your senses, allowing you the freedom to wisk away to another place and another time.
Book Description
Release Date: October 2, 2012
National Book Award Winner
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. In one
day, Joe's life is irrevocably transformed. He tries to heal his mother, but
she will not leave her bed and slips into an abyss of solitude. 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.
Written with undeniable urgency, and illuminating the harsh realities of
contemporary life in a community where Ojibwe and white live uneasily together,
The Round House is a brilliant and entertaining novel, a masterpiece of
literary fiction. Louise Erdrich embraces tragedy, the comic, a spirit world
very much present in the lives of her all-too-human characters, and a tale of
injustice that is, unfortunately, an authentic reflection of what happens in
our own world today. - Amazon
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