The Night Watchman mediamail " the ardent longing that

" the ardent longing that propels a fourteen-year-old Indian girl up the hill to the Sacred Heart Convent and into a life-and-death struggle with the diabolical Sister Leopolda fuels a story of breathtaking power and originality

Veering back and forth between the grittiest features of a small arctic town

as woman after woman gives birth to infants that appear to be primitive species of humans

Ultimately

a novel so prescient that though it conjures an alternate reality

The Night Watchman mediamail " the ardent longing thatWinner of the Pulitzer Prize. "Erdrich at her radiant best" Booklist Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award winning author Louise Erdrichs 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