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Sep 19, 2023 · A historical novel about a mother and daughter seeking refuge in the aftermath of the Civil War. Set in a West Virginia asylum, the book explores war, trauma, and family endurance.
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Sep 19, 2023 · Night Watch, a novel by Jayne Anne Phillips, this month won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. It tells the story of women and anguish during the American Civil War and its aftermath, of mothers and surrogate mothers and widows caught in the killing of their husbands and children in battle.
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Sep 25, 2023 · Jayne Anne Phillips’s new novel, “Night Watch,” about a woman and her daughter in a genteel asylum in West Virginia around the time of the Civil War, is sludgy, claustrophobic and...
A mother and daughter flee to a West Virginia asylum after the war, where they face trauma, erasure, and namelessness. The novel explores their past, their present, and their search for identity and healing in a stunning portrait of family endurance.
Sep 28, 2023 · Jayne Anne Phillips’s newest novel, “Night Watch,” follows the unwinding progression of the American Civil War in rural West Virginia. Jumping between 1864 and 1874, “Night Watch” tracks the...
Sep 15, 2023 · The shocking scars of the Civil War live on in ‘Night Watch’. Jayne Anne Phillips’s National Book Award-nominated novel is a haunting story of resistance. Review by Wendy Smith. September 15,...
Sep 19, 2023 · Epic, enthralling and meticulously crafted, Night Watch is a brilliant portrait of family endurance against all odds and a stunning chronicle of surviving war and its aftermath. Read more. Print length.
- Jayne Anne Phillips
