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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