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National Book Award-winning novelist Louise Erdrich returns with a story inspired by the life of her grandfather, a leader of the Turtle Mountain Chippewa tribe in the 1950s. In "The Night Watchman" ...

“The Night Watchman” by Louise Erdrich will be next year’s One Book One Northwestern selection, Northwestern announced Monday. The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is about a tribal leader that stands up ...

THE NIGHT WATCHMAN by Louise Erdrich (Harper, 448 pp., $28.99). Louise Erdrich’s full-bodied new novel depicts the real-life battle of her grandfather (fictionalized and renamed Thomas Wazhushk) ...

Louise Erdrich’s grandfather, Patrick Gourneau, was the tribal chairman of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa in North Dakota in the 1950s, a golden age for the country but a dark time for Native ...

In search of something good to read? USA TODAY's Barbara VanDenburgh scopes out the shelves for this week’s hottest new book releases. 1. “The Night Watchman,” by Louise Erdrich (Harper, fiction, on ...