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From KQED.

We're now going to listen to another author interview from the archives.

In 2012, I spoke with writer Louise Erdrick about her national book award-winning novel,

The Roundhouse, set on an

Ojibway reservation in North Dakota, the book deals with the aftermath of a brutal rape and a

son's quest for justice. It's part of a trilogy which includes the Plague of Doves and LaRose.

Louise Erdrich joins us in studio. So glad to have you back here. Welcome. Thank you so much.

I'm glad to be here. First, I want to talk about this new book because it is, you really know how to write a page turner.

I mean, you know, there are great literary figures, and you are one of them who open a whole world for us and give us this mythopoetic universe, as it were, a cosmos.

But don't necessarily do the plot stuff that can make you want to just turn the pages.

Do you do it?

I like doing that.

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