![]() ![]() (When he is winning a round against a white fighter, the bell rings 15 seconds early.) ![]() Though she doesn’t find her sister, she finds love in the arms of a promising young boxer named Wood Mountain, himself the victim of racism in the ring. She takes a leave of absence at her job at the Jewel Bearing Plant to search for her sister, Vera, who was last seen in Minneapolis. ![]() ![]() It’s based on the extraordinary story of the author’s grandfather, Thomas Wazhushk, who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, D.C., where he took on Congress in 1953. The Night Watchman, set in the 1950s on North Dakota’s Turtle Mountain Reservation, is no exception. In this way, her latest novel is less a tightly plotted story than a recounting of an episode in American history with character sketches filled in along the way.Ĭertain themes can be relied upon throughout Erdrich’s body of work, most notably the injustice handed out to Native American tribes by the white powers that be. If anything, after three decades of storytelling, she knows her groove and tells her tales in an assured, leisurely fashion. Louise Erdrich’s prolific output has done nothing to water down the quality of her writing. ![]()
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