Night watch
Phillips, Jayne Anne, 1952-2025
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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 and her mother, Eliza, who hasn't spoken in more than a year, 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 lives. There, far from family, a beloved neighbour, 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 back-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.
Main title:
Night watch / Jayne Anne Phillips.
Author:
Phillips, Jayne Anne, 1952-, author
Imprint:
London : Fleet, 2025.
Collation:
304 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2023.
Awards:
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2024
ISBN:
9780349727813 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
813.6
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
3311877