Louise Erdrich

THE NIGHT WATCHMAN

This New York Times bestseller is 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 along with lightness and gravity as it unfolds with elegant prose, sly humor, and depth of feeling of a master craftsman.