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The Night Watchman is the first novel that Erdrich has written that is set on the Turtle Mountain Reservation. [3] In 2021, the novel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. [4] Writing and composition.
Mar 3, 2020 · The Night Watchman is a fictional story based on the life of the author's grandfather, who fought against the termination of Native Americans in 1953. The novel explores themes of love, death, and identity through the perspectives of several characters on a reservation in North Dakota.
In September of 1953, Thomas Wazhashk works as a night watchman at the Turtle Mountain Jewel Bearing Plant. He writes letters while he works, both personal letters to his children, and letters to government officials and reporters in his role as the chairman for the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa. Often, late at night, the ghost of a former ...
Mar 3, 2020 · An Amazon Best Book of March 2020: Louise Erdrich pays poignant homage to her grandfather in this sweeping novel about Native American dispossession in the 1950s. Like her grandfather, our titular hero is a humble night watchman, also the tribal chairman of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa in North Dakota.
Mar 3, 2020 · A history embodied, and every bit of it endangered by Termination. Louise Erdrich’s new novel, “The Night Watchman,” centers on an attempt by the federal government to terminate Native ...
Mar 3, 2020 · The Night Watchman: A Novel. Louise Erdrich. HarperCollins, Mar 3, 2020 - Fiction - 464 pages. WINNER OF THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. WASHINGTON POST, NPR, CBS...
Mar 9, 2020 · Protagonist Thomas Wazhashk, who by night keeps watch in a factory while also tending to the affairs of the Turtle Mountain Band of the Chippewa as tribal chairman, is drawn from Erdrich’s...
