"The Night Watchman" (Atlanta)

(Atlanta only, not Chicago!)
For Native American Heritage Month, we're reading The Night Watchman, which won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

• Genre: Historical Fiction/Literary Fiction
• Author: Louise Erdrich
• Pages: ~450
• Year of publication: 2020

It's set in 1953 in rural North Dakota and Drawn from the life of Erdrich's own grandfather. Thomas Wazhashk, a night watchman at a jewel-bearing plant and a leader in the Turtle Mountain Chippewa community, fights a congressional bill that would end federal recognition of his tribe. Meanwhile, Patrice "Pixie" Paranteau, who works at the same plant, sets out for Minneapolis to find her missing sister.

This will be a dinner potluck and BYOB. Please bring a dish, snack, or beverage to share, and sign up for that on this Google sheet. All communications will be sent via Partiful text blast, so please register at the Partiful event page.

For a free PDF of the book, message the host, Vaidehi.