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Virtual Wider Net Book Group

The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich

This month we will discuss "The Night Watchman" by Louise Erdrich. We meet via Zoom, so please register and a Zoom link will be sent before our meeting.

Wider Net Book Group will meet online, via Zoom, to discuss the novel  "The Night Watchman" by Louise Erdrich. 

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Winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. '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”?' - From the publisher

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