![]() ![]() ![]() But it is summer, so he also hangs out with his friends, especially charismatic, emotionally precocious Cappy. Joe watches his parents in crisis and resolves to avenge the crime against his mother. She is deeply traumatized and unwilling to identify the assailant, but Bazil and Joe go through Bazil’s case files, looking for suspects, men with a grudge against Bazil, who adjudicates cases under Native American jurisdiction, most of them trivial. ![]() She has been attacked and raped before escaping from a man who clearly intended to kill her. When she returns hours later, the family’s idyllic life and Joe’s childhood innocence are shattered. A little later she tells her 13-year-old son, Joe, she needs to pick up a file in her office and drives away. While Bazil naps, Geraldine, who manages tribal enrollment, gets a phone call. Geraldine and Judge Bazil Coutts, who figured prominently in the earlier book, are spending a peaceful Sunday afternoon at home. Erdrich returns to the North Dakota Ojibwe community she introduced in The Plague of Doves (2008)-akin but at a remove from the community she created in the continuum of books from Love Medicine to The Red Convertible-in this story about the aftermath of a rape. ![]()
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