Let me be the one to point out that discriminating minds besides mine liked Louise Erdrich's book, The Round House. It won the National Book Award for fiction yesterday, making her one of the few Minnesota writers to win such an award.
I must be on a roll, for I have also read Katherine Boo's Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Slum, which won the non-fiction award. It was a uncomfortable book to read, and it moved Mumbai way down on my list of cities to visit. It did nothing to displace my faith that some people will bloom and grow where ever they are planted.
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