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Brookside Book Discussion

2020-11-09 13:30:00 2020-11-09 14:30:00 America/Chicago Brookside Book Discussion Read "The Night Watchman" by Louise Erdrich and then join us for a lively virtual discussion on Zoom! Email br@tulsalibrary.org for details to join the meeting. For adults. Virtual

Monday, November 09
1:30pm - 2:30pm

Add to Calendar 2020-11-09 13:30:00 2020-11-09 14:30:00 America/Chicago Brookside Book Discussion Read "The Night Watchman" by Louise Erdrich and then join us for a lively virtual discussion on Zoom! Email br@tulsalibrary.org for details to join the meeting. For adults. Virtual

Read "The Night Watchman" by Louise Erdrich and then join us for a lively virtual discussion on Zoom! Email br@tulsalibrary.org for details to join the meeting. For adults.

It is 1953. Thomas Wazhushk is the night watchman at the first factory to open near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a prominent Chippewa Council member, trying to understand a new bill that is soon to be put before Congress. The U.S. government calls it an "emancipation" bill; but it isn't about freedom - it threatens the rights of Native Americans to their land, their very identity. How can he fight this betrayal? Unlike most of the girls on the reservation, Pixie "Patrice" Paranteau has no desire to wear herself down on a husband and kids. She works at the factory, earning barely enough to support her mother and brother, let alone her alcoholic father who sometimes returns home to bully her for money. But Patrice needs every penny to get if she's ever going to get to Minnesota to find her missing sister Vera. In "The Night Watchman," multiaward winning author Louise Erdrich weaves together a story of past and future generations, of preservation and progress. 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.

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