![]() ![]() Tom and Louise spoke in the afternoon, before her appearance that evening at Haskell Indian Nations University.Ī reminder that because this conversation was pre-recorded, we can’t take your calls and comments. On that day, Louise Erdrich was at the end of a 6-city book tour, still flying in full planes. Tom spoke with the author on March 11 th, 2020, when public understanding of the severity of the coronavirus pandemic was in its nascent stage. Erdrich’s grandfather, Patrick Gourneau, who led the Turtle Mountain Band’s fight against what the government called “emancipation.”ĭescribing the book as "a masterpiece," Tom notes that like the many other Louise Erdrich novels he's had the pleasure of encountering, this one is "transcendent, enchanting, and revelatory." ![]() This is Erdrichs 6th standalone novel following Future Home of the Living God. ![]() It chronicles the efforts of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians to thwart the government’s attempt to terminate them, which is to say, end federal recognition of the tribe, and force them off their ancestral land. The Night Watchman is a novel by Louise Erdrich first published on Maby HarperCollins. The Night Watchman takes place in rural North Dakota in the 1950s. ![]()
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