The Night Watchman : Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction 2021

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Emily says about The Night Watchman: "This book is a slow burn and an incredibly powerful read. Louise Erdrich writes some of the most complex and interesting characters that I hav e ever come across and the people of the reservation will stay with me for a long time." WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN FICTION 2021NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIt is 1953. Thomas Wazhushk is the night watchman at the first factory to open near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a prominent Chippewa Council member, trying to understand a new bill that is soon to be put before Congress. The US Government calls it an 'emancipation' bill; but it isn't about freedom - it threatens the rights of Native Americans to their land, their very identity. How can he fight this betrayal? Unlike most of the girls on the reservation, Pixie - 'Patrice' - Paranteau has no desire to wear herself down on a husband and kids. She works at the factory, earning barely enough to support her mother and brother, let alone her alcoholic father who sometimes returns home to bully her for money. But Patrice needs every penny to get if she's ever going to get to Minnesota to find her missing sister Vera. In The Night Watchman multi-award winning author Louise Erdrich weaves together a story of past and future generations, of preservation and progress. She grapples with the worst and best impulses of human nature, illuminating the loves and lives, desires and ambitions of her characters with compassion, wit and intelligence. Author: Erdrich, Louise Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Published on 4 March 2021 by Little, Brown Book Group (Corsair) in the United Kingdom.Paperback / softback | 464 pages128 x 196 x 40 | 366g Show more