![]() His mother won’t talk, and his father won’t tell him what little he knows. ![]() Her lawyer-judge husband tries, within the boundaries of the law he both reveres and lives by, to learn the identity of his wife’s attacker but is frustrated at every turn. Gerry is so traumatized that she is unable - unwilling? - to tell her husband and only child who did it.īoth in the hospital and for a very long time once she’s home, she will not reveal why she went to the office (where she’s a tribal enrollment specialist) on a Sunday to get a specific file. She blotted them away with a gauze-wrapped fist. Tears leaked from the corners of her eyes. She peered through slits in the swollen flesh of her lids. ![]() ![]() When Joe visits her in the hospital, he tells us, “Now I saw my mother’s face puffed with welts and distorted to an ugly shape. But the building also is the place where his mother, Geraldine Coutts, is brutally attacked and would have been, except for her heroic escape, killed. ![]() Joe Bazil is the protagonist-narrator of “The Round House,” the reservation’s cylindrically shaped meeting house, sweat lodge and religious center. ![]()
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