![]() ![]() Her job - recording and validating the tribal membership of each person - makes her privy to the intricate web of relationships among tribal members and outsiders, and to the secrets that can surround issues of parentage, the hidden slips across familial and racial lines. (One of Joe's nicknames is Oops.) He's luckier than many other kids on the reservation, where poverty and fractured families are a fact of life, to have an intact family in which both parents are professionals - Bazil a judge in the tribal legal system, Geraldine an enrollment specialist. He's the beloved child of Bazil and Geraldine Coutts, born when they're both well into middle age. ![]() The novel takes place in 1988, when Joe is 13, although he recalls the story for us as an adult. That reservation community is the setting in which The Round House unfolds. ![]()
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