The Night Watchman
Louise Erdrich • 2020
Devastation Rating
Native American colonialism politics 1950s
Our Take
Based on her grandfather's fight against the Termination Act, Erdrich writes legislative genocide with the patience of someone who has watched it happen over generations. The bureaucratic evil here is not spectacular — it is paperwork, and that is the point.
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