Louise Erdrich, "The Night Watchman"

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Louise Erdrich, "The Night Watchman: A Novel" (2020)

 

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Louise Erdrich Wins Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

 

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They were confined on the reservation, and had to get permission from the farmer in charge to pass its boundaries. For a while they were not allowed to go off to search for food, and one terrible winter the old people starved themselves so that young people could continue. (p. 68)

 

"What did you all do in the beginning? To keep the land?"

"It was sign or die."

"How did you keep the last of it?"

"First they gave us this scrap, then they tried to push us off this scrap. Then they took away most of the scrap. Now what you are saying is they want to push us off the edge of the scrap. (p. 118)

 

[Mormon] Missionary rules and their president had insisted on a shared room, always. They could not leave each other's company for more than bathroom breaks. For if one of them fell into the grip of temptation, the other would be there to witness, and then to write to their area president, or even call, in emergency. (p. 346)

 

"Their hatred was fixed, and they were led by their evil nature that they became wild and ferocious, and a blood-thirsty people, full of idolatry and filthiness, feeding upon bests of prey, dwelling in tents, and wandering about in the wilderness with a short skin girdle about their loins."

"What do you think, Rosey?" said Thomas, "It's us."

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Thomas closed The Book of Mormon. (p. 381)

 

Joseph Smith's personal revealation, all written down in The Book of mormon, was that his peope alone were the best and should possess the earth. (p. 382)

 

"Sometimes our blanket is covered by frost from our breathing. We have to crack it off in the morning."

"Sometimes I wonder why I like it so much here alone. Why I'm so happy." (p. 417)