Ep. 255 The Round House by Louise Erdrich -- The Stacks Book Club (Mina Kimes)
The Stacks
Traci Thomas
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2023
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
It's The Stacks Book Club Day, and we're joined again by Mina Kimes of ESPN, to discuss Louise Erdrich's novel The Round House. This page-turning coming-of-age story is set in 1988 North Dakota and follows a boy and his friends seeking justice for a horrific crime. Today we talk about the merits of vengeance, the relationship between coming into ones sexuality and understanding consent, and the flaws in the criminal legal system especially in regard to American tribal lands.
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| 0:00.0 | You guys, the live and the stacks tour is underway. |
| 0:03.8 | We had an incredible night in Oakland filled with bookish conversations, hot takes, games, |
| 0:08.8 | cocktails. If you missed it, I'm sorry, but don't worry, it's not too late to see the stacks live |
| 0:15.3 | in one of our next four stops. Join me in Chicago with Samantha Erby on August 27th |
| 0:21.6 | in Washington, D.C. with Jason Reynolds on September 24th in New York City with KSA |
| 0:26.9 | Laman on September 25th and in L.A. on October 18th with some extra special guests that we will be |
| 0:33.6 | announcing real soon. Tickets are selling fast so head to the stackspodcast.com slash tour and |
| 0:40.6 | get your tickets before we sell out. Welcome to the stacks, a podcast about books and the people who |
| 0:55.6 | read them. I'm your host Tracy Thomas and it is the stacks book club day and we are thrilled to |
| 1:00.7 | welcome back ESPN analyst Mina Kimes to discuss the roundhouse by Luis Erdrick. The book was released |
| 1:07.6 | in 2012 and it won the National Book Award. It's set in 1988 and centers a 13 year old boy named |
| 1:13.2 | Joe living with his parents in North Dakota. As his mother reels from a brutal attack on their |
| 1:18.0 | reservation, the justice system is simply no help. So Joe and his friends set out seeking justice. |
| 1:23.6 | We talk today about this literary thriller, the characters and scenes that stuck with us most |
| 1:28.2 | and our thoughts on justice more broadly. There are a lot of spoilers in today's episode. |
| 1:33.4 | Make sure you listen through to the end of today's episode to hear our official announcement for |
| 1:37.0 | our March Book Club pick. Quick reminder, everything we talk about on today's episode of the |
| 1:41.0 | stacks can be found in the link in the show notes. And listen, if you love the show and you want |
| 1:44.8 | more of it, please go to patreon.com slash the stacks to join the stacks pack. The stacks is a |
| 1:49.6 | completely independent podcast, which means I could not make the show without listeners like you |
| 1:54.4 | who put five dollars each month behind the show to make it possible. You get things like bonus |
| 1:59.3 | episodes, our virtual book club access to our lively discord plus you get to know that your |
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