The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich - 2020

New York: Harper, 2020. SIGNED. F/NF. Stated First Edition. Seventh printing with number line ending in 7. Signed by Louise Erdrich on the title page. The book is tight and square with solid hinges, good tips, and clean boards. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The fragile dust jacket is unclipped ($28.99) with light shelf wear (see photos). Removable SIGNED COPY sticker. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 451 pages. 6¼ x 9¼" tall. Winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

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 US 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? Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich's grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, D.C.