The Night Watchman By Louise Erdrich

November 06, 2020

Her intimate knowledge of the Native American world in collision with the white world has allowed her over more than a dozen books to create a brilliantly realized alternate history as rich as Faulkners. The year is 1953 and the setting is the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa in North Dakota.

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Illuminating the loves and lives the desires and ambitions of these characters with compassion wit and intelligence The Night Watchman is a majestic work of fiction from this revered cultural treasure.

The night watchman by louise erdrich. Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrichs grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington DC this powerful novel explores themes of love and death with lightness and gravity and unfolds with the elegant prose sly humor and depth of feeling of a master craftsman. Erdrich like her grandfather is a defender and raconteur of the lives of her people. Thom as was named for the muskrat wazhashk the lowly hardworking water-loving rodent.

Louise Erdrichs The Night Watchman is a singular achievement even for this accomplished writer. Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrichs grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington DC this powerful novel explores themes of love and death with lightness and gravity and unfolds with the elegant prose sly humor and depth of feeling of a master craftsman. Thomas Wazhashk is the hardworking and loyal night watchman of a jewel factory.

An excerpt from The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich. Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrichs grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington DC this powerful novel explores themes of love and death with lightness and gravity and unfolds with the elegant prose sly humor and depth of feeling of a master craftsman. Louise Erdrich creates a fictional world populated with memorable characters who are forced to grapple with the worst and best impulses of human nature.

The novel tells the story of a network of people connected to the Turtle Mountain reservation their fight against termination and their daily interconnected lives.

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