The
Night Watchman
by Louise Erdrich
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New
York Times Bestseller
Based
on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise
Erdrich’s grandfather who worked as a
night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural
North Dakota all the way to Washington, D.C., 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 night
watchman at the jewel bearing plant, the first factory located near the Turtle
Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a Chippewa Council
member who is trying to understand the consequences of a new “emancipation”
bill on its way to the floor of the United States Congress. It is 1953 and he
and the other council members know the bill isn’t about freedom; Congress is
fed up with Indians. The bill is a “termination” that threatens the rights of
Native Americans to their land and their very identity. How can the government
abandon treaties made in good faith with Native Americans “for as long as the grasses
shall grow, and the rivers run”?
Since graduating high school,
Pixie Paranteau has insisted that everyone call her Patrice. Unlike most of the
girls on the reservation, Patrice, the class valedictorian, has no desire to
wear herself down with a husband and kids. She makes jewel bearings at the
plant, a job that barely pays her enough to support her mother and brother.
Patrice’s shameful alcoholic father returns home sporadically to terrorize his
wife and children and bully her for money. But Patrice needs every penny to
follow her beloved older sister, Vera, who moved to the big city of
Minneapolis. Vera may have disappeared; she hasn’t been in touch in months, and
is rumored to have had a baby. Determined to find Vera and her child, Patrice
makes a fateful trip to Minnesota that introduces her to unexpected forms of
exploitation and violence, and endangers her life.
Thomas and Patrice live in this
impoverished reservation community along with young Chippewa boxer Wood
Mountain and his mother Juggie Blue, her niece and Patrice’s best friend
Valentine, and Stack Barnes, the white high school math teacher and boxing
coach who is hopelessly in love with Patrice.
In the Night Watchman, Louise
Erdrich creates a fictional world populated with memorable characters who are
forced to grapple with the worst and best impulses of human nature.
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.
Product
details
File Size :
3461 KB
Print Length : 464 pages
Publisher :
Harper (March 3, 2020)
Publication Date : March 3, 2020
Sold by : Amazon.com Services
LLC
Language : English
ASIN : B07SKWFVYW
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