However, implicit in the storyline is a belief that justice requires capital punishment, a barbarity which places the United States out of step with Western values and conflicts with a strongly held value of mine.
Let me cut to the chase: As she makes plain in the Afterword, Erdrich is on a mission with this book, a mission to make people aware that jurisdictional issues to do with native title on reservations mean that perpetrators of violent crime, especially rape against women, go unpunished.
And if a book works so well that it bothers me to the extent that this one does, then it’s a very powerful book indeed. The book is a superbly crafted coming-of-age story, with a compelling plot and fine characterisation, especially of the teenage boys with their wisecracking humour. Louise Erdrich, a Native American author of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, is, Wikipedia tells me, acclaimed as one of the most significant writers of the second wave of the Native American Renaissance. Let me say at the start that it is a very fine book. “Teves’ continued unauthorized absence is continuous disorderly conduct,” the committee’s vice chair and Nueva Ecija 3rd District Representative Ria Vergara said.I was not expecting to feel like this, but I felt a deep sense of unease when I turned the last page of Louise Erdrich’s The Round House. On Tuesday, House ethics panel chair COOP NATCCO Representative Felimon Espares said the committee came up with recommendations on Teves that would be subject to a plenary vote on the last week of May, although the panel declined to divulge the details of their findings. The chamber already denied a similar request back in March. Teves’ lawyer Ferdinand Topacio told CNN Philippines on Sunday, May 21, that his client would ask the ethics panel to allow him to attend Tuesday’s hearing via video conference. Teves’ suspension currently deprives him of his access to salary, office space and other House privileges. “This is our recourse in order to preserve the dignity, integrity, and reputation of the House of Representatives,” he had said. Romualdez warned Teves earlier this month that failure to set foot in the Philippines after the expiry of his 60-day suspension may result in more sanctions against him.
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