The Night Watchman
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Lastly, if you should ever doubt that a series of dry words in a government document can shatter spirits and demolish lives, let this book erase that doubt. Conversely, if you should be of the conviction that we are powerless to change those dry words, let this book give you heart.
About the Author
Louise Erdrich is the author of sixteen novels, volumes of poetry, children’s books, and a memoir of early motherhood. Her fiction has won the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award (twice), and has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She has received the Library of Congress Prize in American Fiction, the prestigious PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Louise Erdrich, a member of the Turtle Mountain band of Chippewa, lives in Minnesota with her daughters and is the owner of Birchbark Books, a small independent bookstore.
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Also by Louise Erdrich
Novels
Love Medicine
The Beet Queen
Tracks
The Bingo Palace
Tales of Burning Love
The Antelope Wife (1997; revised editions, 2012, 2014)
Antelope Woman (2016)
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
The Master Butchers Singing Club
Four Souls
The Painted Drum
The Plague of Doves
Shadow Tag
The Round House
LaRose
Future Home of the Living God
Stories
The Red Convertible: Selected and New Stories, 1978–2008
Poetry
Jacklight
Baptism of Desire
Original Fire
For Children
Grandmother’s Pigeon
The Birchbark House
The Range Eternal
The Game of Silence
The Porcupine Year
Chickadee
Makoons
Nonfiction
The Blue Jay’s Dance
Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country
Copyright
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Cover art by Aza Erdrich
Cover typography by Milan Bozic
Title page illustration © 2020 Laura Hartman Maestro
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data has been applied for.
Digital Edition MARCH 2020 ISBN: 978-0-06-267120-2
Print ISBN: 978-0-06-267118-9
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