Ep 339 - The Round House, by Louise Erdrich

Overdue

Headgum

Craig Getting, Arts, Books, Podcasts, Literature, Comedy, Andrew Cunningham

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2019

⏱️ 64 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Louise Erdirch's National Book Award-winning novel The Round House is the story of a thirteen-year-old boy seeking justice for a terrible crime committed against his mother. Unfortunately, arcane laws and good old-fashioned racism stand in his way. It's a powerful book about one young man's growth, about the limits of and hopes for tribal law, and about the perils facing too many Native women. Also there's Star Trek and some grandparents making dirty jokes.

Content warning: The Round House is about a case of sexual assault. We don't read explicit passages, but the event does come up in our discussion.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hey, Andrew.
0:01.0	Hi, Craig.
0:02.6	We just wanted to give our listeners a quick heads up that the Roundhouse does center on
0:08.4	a case of sexual assault on an native reservation in North Dakota.
0:13.1	So for folks for whom that might be a little bit of a harrowing experience, just be for
0:17.2	warned.
0:18.2	We don't read any like passages that are pretty upsetting or anything like that though,
0:23.1	right?
0:24.1	No.
0:25.1	Okay.
0:26.1	Okay.
0:27.1	And just tread lightly if that is a thing that would impair your listening experience.
0:35.6	This is a headgun podcast.
0:39.5	While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well-told
0:43.8	tale, they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary.
0:50.0	Plus these are books you should have read by now.
0:57.1	What do you want to talk about?
1:17.3	What do you want to talk about?
1:19.1	I don't know.
1:20.1	How's your Sunday?
1:22.4	What have you done?
1:23.4	Have you married Condo or anything?
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Headgum, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Headgum and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.