![]() ![]() 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. ![]() Illuminating the loves and lives, the desires and ambitions of these characters with compassion, wit, and intelligence, The Night Watchman is a majestic work of fiction. She grapples with the worst and best impulses of human nature, illuminating the loves and lives, desires and ambitions of her characters with compassion, wit and intelligence. On that day, Louise Erdrich was at the end of a 6-city book tour, still flying in full planes. In the Night Watchman, Louise Erdrich creates a fictional world populated with memorable characters who are forced to grapple with the worst and best impulses of human nature. In The Night Watchmanmulti-award winning author Louise Erdrich weaves together a story of past and future generations, of preservation and progress. ![]() 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." 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 takes place in rural North Dakota in the 1950s. ![]()
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