Night watch
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In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, renegades and wanderers, freedmen and runaways. Twelve-year-old ConaLee, the adult in her family for as long as she can remember, finds herself on a buckboard journey with her mother, Eliza, who hasn't spoken in more than a year. They arrive at the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in West Virginia, delivered to the hospital's entrance by a war veteran who has forced himself into their world. There, far from family, a beloved neighbor, and the mountain home they knew, they try to reclaim their lives. The omnipresent vagaries of war and race rise to the surface as we learn their story: their flight to the highest mountain ridges of western Virginia; the disappearance of ConaLee's father, who left for the War and never returned. Meanwhile, in the asylum, they begin to find a new path. ConaLee pretends to be her mother's maid; Eliza responds slowly to treatment. They get swept up in the life of the facility--the mysterious man they call the Night Watch; the orphan child called Weed; the fearsome woman who runs the kitchen; the remarkable doctor at the head of the institution. Epic, enthralling, and meticulously crafted, Night Watch is a stunning chronicle of surviving war and its aftermath. --
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Families -- Fiction.
Mental illness -- Fiction.
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
Psychic trauma -- Fiction.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Fiction.
Selective mutism -- Fiction.
Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum -- Fiction.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction.
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Phillips, J. A. (2025). Night watch. First Vintage Books edition. Vintage Books, a Division of Penguin Random House.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Phillips, Jayne Anne, 1952-. 2025. Night Watch. Vintage Books, a Division of Penguin Random House.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Phillips, Jayne Anne, 1952-, Night Watch. Vintage Books, a Division of Penguin Random House, 2025.
MLA Citation (style guide)Phillips, Jayne Anne. Night Watch. First Vintage Books edition. Vintage Books, a Division of Penguin Random House, 2025.
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| 520 | |a In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, renegades and wanderers, freedmen and runaways. Twelve-year-old ConaLee, the adult in her family for as long as she can remember, finds herself on a buckboard journey with her mother, Eliza, who hasn't spoken in more than a year. They arrive at the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in West Virginia, delivered to the hospital's entrance by a war veteran who has forced himself into their world. There, far from family, a beloved neighbor, and the mountain home they knew, they try to reclaim their lives. The omnipresent vagaries of war and race rise to the surface as we learn their story: their flight to the highest mountain ridges of western Virginia; the disappearance of ConaLee's father, who left for the War and never returned. Meanwhile, in the asylum, they begin to find a new path. ConaLee pretends to be her mother's maid; Eliza responds slowly to treatment. They get swept up in the life of the facility--the mysterious man they call the Night Watch; the orphan child called Weed; the fearsome woman who runs the kitchen; the remarkable doctor at the head of the institution. Epic, enthralling, and meticulously crafted, Night Watch is a stunning chronicle of surviving war and its aftermath. -- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
| 586 | |a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2024 | ||
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| 650 | 0 | |a Mental illness |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Selective mutism |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Amnesia |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Psychic trauma |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) |v Fiction. | |
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