LaRose (novel)
''LaRose'' is a novel by the Ojibwe author Louise Erdrich, published in 2016 by HarperCollins. The book received positive reviews from multiple publications, including ''The New York Times'', ''The Kansas City Star'', ''Winnipeg Free Press'', ''The Philadelphia Inquirer'', ''The Washington Post'', ''The A.V. Club'', ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', ''USA Today'', and ''The Chronicle Herald.'' It won the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction. The novel features the same setting as Erdrich's 2012 novel '' The Round House.'' Plot summary ''LaRose'' is set in North Dakota on an Ojibwe reservation in the "era of George W. Bush and 9/11." The novel's protagonist is LaRose Iron, a young Native American boy. His father, Landreaux Iron, accidentally shoots LaRose's best friend and neighbor, Dusty Ravich, also 5 years old, in a hunting accident, when the buck Landreaux had aimed at suddenly moved from in front of the boy. Dusty's parents, Peter and Nola, are devastated by his ...
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