The Night Watchman

464 pages

English language

Published Feb. 23, 2020 by Little, Brown Book Group Limited.

ISBN:
978-1-4721-5534-4
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the night watchman

4 stars

4.5 but not quite a five star read the length of time this took me to read had nothing to do with the content and everything to do with me struggling to use an e-reader this year. took months to get to about 20% in but i read the rest in the last 24 hours. delighted by the almost mis direct of the title, i loved a lot about this and want to read more erdich immediately. really great writing full of love and truth

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5 stars

Much different than I had expected, in a more-so sort of way, and it just kept getting better. This is not, contrary to whay you may have heard, the Inspiring Story of One Man Standing Up to Powerful Forces — well, not only that. It's... I don't really know. It's a series of threads, of lives, touching irregularly but with startling force each time they do; their relationships building something powerful yet sublime and ephemeral while keeping each thread distinct. If Erdrich were a composer this would be one hell of a symphony.

This is my second Erdrich book; I will look for more. She writes with grace. Treats her characters with respect, spending time and words on each, giving them a vivid threedimensional life. The best way I can think of to describe it is, it's not like I "felt like I knew the characters": more like I was …

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3 stars

Erdrich writes well, and her novels give interesting insight into modern (or at least recent) Native American experience. I really like the way she uses her Indian characters’ conversations with non-indigenous people to challenge misconceptions a lot of people have about tribes’ relationship with the federal government; it allows her to educate without preaching. But her stories are bleak, and bleak isn’t really what I need just now.

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  • Fiction, cultural heritage
  • Indians of north america, fiction
  • North dakota, fiction

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