Daytime Book Club: The Night Watchman

About the event

Come join the Daytime Book Club as we discuss this month's book! New members are always welcome (we love meeting new people!). Registration is appreciated but not required.

This month we will discuss The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich. The description for the book is below: "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?

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."

We look forward to seeing you all soon!

Interested in attending a future Daytime Book Club meeting? Take a look at our reading list below:

May 2026: To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

June 2026: The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich

July 2026: A Marriage at Sea by Sophie Elmhirst

August 2026: My Friends by Fredrik Backman

September 2026: Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy

October 2026: The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

November 2026: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

December 2026: Orbital by Samantha Harvey

January 2027: What We Can Know by Ian McEwan

February 2027: Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

March 2027: Proud Shoes by Pauli Murray

April 2027: Isola by Allegra Goodman