![]() ![]() Patrice – nicknamed Pixie for her elfin eyes – fears for her sister, Vera, who has gone to Minneapolis and had a baby but has not been heard from since. ![]() Patrice’s job allows her to support her mother and brother amid the turmoil that her alcoholic father wreaks on their household on the occasions he lurches home. Smart, beautiful and adamantly independent, Patrice prides herself on being the best at the intensely intricate work of laying slivers of jewels into tiny keyboards for watches. It is 1953, and Thomas, a tribal council member, is fighting a congressman who wants to cut his people off from their land. Thomas Wazhushk, the night watchman of the title, works security at a jewel bearing plant near the Turtle Mountain reservation in North Dakota that employs his niece, Patrice. Louise Erdrich’s new novel, “The Night Watchman” (Harper, 448 pp., ★★★½ out of four), shimmers and dances like the northern lights the book's cover evokes. ![]()
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