The night watchman pulitzer prize7/3/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() “The book is about how people fight for one another, fight for their communities, and try so hard to get things right and put things into a caring, loving perspective - and if not that, into some kind of perspective that can benefit as many people as possible in a community,” Erdrich said. government's efforts in the 1950s to “emancipate” the Turtle Mountain band and other tribes and end federal recognition of these tribes in order to force them off their ancestral land. It tells the little-known story of the U.S. The novel is based on 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. It includes universal themes of community, family, love, and freedom. “The Night Watchman” is set near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota in the 1950s. The One Book, One Community reading project - now in its 11th year - centers on a community-wide reading of a single book and is dedicated to creating a shared conversation along with a range of related events and activities for residents of all ages. ![]() Louise Erdrich’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, “The Night Watchman,” was selected as the 2022 One Book, One Community title, and Erdrich discussed her book in the Centrum at Concordia College on Oct. ![]()
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