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Black Bottom Saints
- A Novel
- 著者: Alice Randall
- ナレーター: Prentice Onayemi, Imani Parks
- 再生時間: 12 時間 19 分
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From the Great Depression through the post-World War II years, Joseph “Ziggy” Johnson has been the pulse of Detroit’s famous Black Bottom. A celebrated gossip columnist for the city’s African-American newspaper, the Michigan Chronicle, he is also the emcee of one of the hottest night clubs, where he’s rubbed elbows with the legendary black artists of the era, including Ethel Waters, Billy Eckstein, and Count Basie. Ziggy is also the founder and dean of the Ziggy Johnson School of Theater. But now the doyen of Black Bottom is ready to hang up his many dapper hats.
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Deacon King Kong
- A Novel
- 著者: James McBride
- ナレーター: Dominic Hoffman
- 再生時間: 14 時間 5 分
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In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .38 from his pocket, and, in front of everybody, shoots the project's drug dealer at point-blank range. The reasons for this desperate burst of violence and the consequences that spring from it lie at the heart of Deacon King Kong, James McBride's funny, moving novel and his first since his National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird.
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Stella Endicott and the Anything-Is-Possible Poem
- Tales from Deckawoo Drive, Volume Five
- 著者: Kate DiCamillo
- ナレーター: Christina Rooney, Bahni Turpin
- 再生時間: 48 分
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Stella Endicott loves her teacher, Miss Liliana, and she is thrilled when the class is assigned to write a poem. Stella crafts a beautiful poem about Mercy Watson, the pig who lives next door - a poem complete with a metaphor and full of curiosity and courage. But Horace Broom, Stella's irritating classmate, insists that Stella's poem is full of lies and that pigs do not live in houses. And when Stella and Horace get into a shouting match in the classroom, Miss Liliana banishes them to the principal's office. Will the two of them find a way to turn this opposite-of-a-poem day around?
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The Last Great Road Bum
- A Novel
- 著者: Héctor Tobar
- ナレーター: Timothy Pabon
- 再生時間: 14 時間 47 分
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In The Last Great Road Bum, Héctor Tobar turns the peripatetic true story of a naive son of Urbana, Illinois, who died fighting with guerrillas in El Salvador into the great American novel for our times. Joe Sanderson died in pursuit of a life worth writing about. He was, in his words, a "road bum", an adventurer and a storyteller, belonging to no place, people, or set of ideas. He was born into a childhood of middle-class contentment in Urbana, Illinois, and died fighting with guerillas in Central America.
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Hamnet
- 著者: Maggie O'Farrell
- ナレーター: Ell Potter
- 再生時間: 12 時間 42 分
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Agnes is a wild creature who walks her family’s land with a falcon on her glove and is known throughout the countryside for her unusual gifts as a healer, understanding plants and potions better than she does people. Once she settles with her husband on Henley Street in Stratford-upon-Avon, she becomes a fiercely protective mother and a steadfast, centrifugal force in the life of her young husband, whose career on the London stage is taking off when his beloved young son succumbs to sudden fever.
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A Registry of My Passage upon the Earth
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- 著者: Daniel Mason
- ナレーター: Michael Crouch, Susannah Jones, Jay Ben Markson, 、その他
- 再生時間: 5 時間 29 分
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On a fateful flight, a balloonist makes a discovery that changes her life forever. A telegraph operator finds an unexpected companion in the middle of the Amazon. A doctor is beset by seizures, in which he is possessed by a second, perhaps better, version of himself. And in Regency London, a bare-knuckle fighter prepares to face his most fearsome opponent, while a young mother seeks a miraculous cure for her ailing son. At times funny and irreverent, always moving and deeply urgent, these stories cap a 15-year project.
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Black Bottom Saints
- A Novel
- 著者: Alice Randall
- ナレーター: Prentice Onayemi, Imani Parks
- 再生時間: 12 時間 19 分
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From the Great Depression through the post-World War II years, Joseph “Ziggy” Johnson has been the pulse of Detroit’s famous Black Bottom. A celebrated gossip columnist for the city’s African-American newspaper, the Michigan Chronicle, he is also the emcee of one of the hottest night clubs, where he’s rubbed elbows with the legendary black artists of the era, including Ethel Waters, Billy Eckstein, and Count Basie. Ziggy is also the founder and dean of the Ziggy Johnson School of Theater. But now the doyen of Black Bottom is ready to hang up his many dapper hats.
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Deacon King Kong
- A Novel
- 著者: James McBride
- ナレーター: Dominic Hoffman
- 再生時間: 14 時間 5 分
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In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .38 from his pocket, and, in front of everybody, shoots the project's drug dealer at point-blank range. The reasons for this desperate burst of violence and the consequences that spring from it lie at the heart of Deacon King Kong, James McBride's funny, moving novel and his first since his National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird.
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Stella Endicott and the Anything-Is-Possible Poem
- Tales from Deckawoo Drive, Volume Five
- 著者: Kate DiCamillo
- ナレーター: Christina Rooney, Bahni Turpin
- 再生時間: 48 分
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Stella Endicott loves her teacher, Miss Liliana, and she is thrilled when the class is assigned to write a poem. Stella crafts a beautiful poem about Mercy Watson, the pig who lives next door - a poem complete with a metaphor and full of curiosity and courage. But Horace Broom, Stella's irritating classmate, insists that Stella's poem is full of lies and that pigs do not live in houses. And when Stella and Horace get into a shouting match in the classroom, Miss Liliana banishes them to the principal's office. Will the two of them find a way to turn this opposite-of-a-poem day around?
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The Last Great Road Bum
- A Novel
- 著者: Héctor Tobar
- ナレーター: Timothy Pabon
- 再生時間: 14 時間 47 分
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In The Last Great Road Bum, Héctor Tobar turns the peripatetic true story of a naive son of Urbana, Illinois, who died fighting with guerrillas in El Salvador into the great American novel for our times. Joe Sanderson died in pursuit of a life worth writing about. He was, in his words, a "road bum", an adventurer and a storyteller, belonging to no place, people, or set of ideas. He was born into a childhood of middle-class contentment in Urbana, Illinois, and died fighting with guerillas in Central America.
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Hamnet
- 著者: Maggie O'Farrell
- ナレーター: Ell Potter
- 再生時間: 12 時間 42 分
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Agnes is a wild creature who walks her family’s land with a falcon on her glove and is known throughout the countryside for her unusual gifts as a healer, understanding plants and potions better than she does people. Once she settles with her husband on Henley Street in Stratford-upon-Avon, she becomes a fiercely protective mother and a steadfast, centrifugal force in the life of her young husband, whose career on the London stage is taking off when his beloved young son succumbs to sudden fever.
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A Registry of My Passage upon the Earth
- Stories
- 著者: Daniel Mason
- ナレーター: Michael Crouch, Susannah Jones, Jay Ben Markson, 、その他
- 再生時間: 5 時間 29 分
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On a fateful flight, a balloonist makes a discovery that changes her life forever. A telegraph operator finds an unexpected companion in the middle of the Amazon. A doctor is beset by seizures, in which he is possessed by a second, perhaps better, version of himself. And in Regency London, a bare-knuckle fighter prepares to face his most fearsome opponent, while a young mother seeks a miraculous cure for her ailing son. At times funny and irreverent, always moving and deeply urgent, these stories cap a 15-year project.
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The Midnight Library
- 著者: Matt Haig
- ナレーター: Carey Mulligan
- 再生時間: 8 時間 49 分
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Thirty-four-year-old Nora's life could be better. She's lonely, single and has just lost her job. Her cat dying feels like the last straw. What else is there to live for? Then she finds a library between life and death where she gets to try all the other lives she could have lived. The Midnight Library is a gloriously relatable novel about life, death and the in-between. It is about finding hope, playing chess, dumping regrets and picking the right people around you.
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The Journeys of Trees
- A Story About Forests, People, and the Future
- 著者: Zach St. George
- ナレーター: Daniel Henning
- 再生時間: 7 時間 52 分
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A deft blend of science reporting and travel writing, The Journeys of Trees explores the evolving movements of forests by focusing on five trees: giant sequoia, ash, black spruce, Florida torreya, and Monterey pine.
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Fierce Attachments
- 著者: Vivian Gornick
- ナレーター: Jill Fox
- 再生時間: 6 時間 9 分
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In this deeply etched and haunting memoir, Vivian Gornick tells the story of her lifelong battle with her mother for independence. There have been numerous books about mother and daughter, but none has dealt with this closest of filial relations as directly or as ruthlessly. Gornick's groundbreaking book confronts what Edna O'Brien has called "the prinicpal crux of female despair": the unacknowledged Oedipal nature of the mother-daughter bond.
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Writers & Lovers
- 著者: Lily King
- ナレーター: Stacey Glemboski
- 再生時間: 8 時間 14 分
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Casey has ended up back in Massachusetts after a devastating love affair. Her one constant is the novel she has been writing for six years, but at 31 she is in debt and directionless, and feels too old to be that way - it’s strange, not be the youngest kind of adult anymore. Suddenly Casey finds herself at the point of a love triangle, torn between two very different relationships that promise two very different futures.
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A Promised Land
- 著者: Barack Obama
- ナレーター: Barack Obama
- 再生時間: 29 時間 10 分
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In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency - a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil.
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The Three-Cornered War
- The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West
- 著者: Megan Kate Nelson
- ナレーター: Cynthia Farrell
- 再生時間: 10 時間 16 分
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A dramatic, riveting, and deeply researched narrative account of the epic struggle for the West during the Civil War, revealing a little-known, vastly important episode in American history. In The Three-Cornered War, Megan Kate Nelson reveals the fascinating history of the Civil War in the American West. Exploring the connections among the Civil War, the Indian wars, and Western expansion, Nelson reframes the era as one of national conflict - involving not just the North and South, but also the West.
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LaRose
- A Novel
- 著者: Louise Erdrich
- ナレーター: Louise Erdrich
- 再生時間: 14 時間 37 分
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North Dakota, late summer, 1999. Landreaux Iron stalks a deer along the edge of the property bordering his own. He shoots with easy confidence - but when the buck springs away, Landreaux realizes he's hit something else, a blur he saw as he squeezed the trigger. When he staggers closer, he realizes he has killed his neighbor's five-year-old son, Dusty Ravich.
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Anxious People
- A Novel
- 著者: Fredrik Backman
- ナレーター: Marin Ireland
- 再生時間: 9 時間 53 分
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Looking at real estate isn’t usually a life-or-death situation, but an apartment open house becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes a group of strangers hostage. The captives include a recently retired couple who relentlessly hunt down fixer-uppers to avoid the painful truth that they can’t fix their own marriage. There’s a wealthy bank director who has been too busy to care about anyone else and a young couple who are about to have their first child but can’t seem to agree on anything.
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Unworthy Republic
- The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory
- 著者: Claudio Saunt
- ナレーター: Stephen Bowlby
- 再生時間: 11 時間 36 分
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In May 1830, the United States formally launched a policy to expel Native Americans from the East to territories west of the Mississippi River. Justified as a humanitarian enterprise, the undertaking was to be systematic and rational, overseen by Washington's small but growing bureaucracy. But as the policy unfolded over the next decade, thousands of Native Americans died under the federal government's auspices, and thousands of others lost their possessions and homelands in an orgy of fraud, intimidation, and violence.
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Homegoing
- 著者: Yaa Gyasi
- ナレーター: Dominic Hoffman
- 再生時間: 13 時間 11 分
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Penguin presents the unabridged downloadable audiobook edition of Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi, narrated by Dominic Hoffman.
Effia and Esi: two sisters with two very different destinies. One sold into slavery, one a slave trader's wife. The consequences of their fate reverberate through the generations that follow.
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A Good Neighborhood
- A Novel
- 著者: Therese Anne Fowler
- ナレーター: Ella Turenne
- 再生時間: 10 時間 35 分
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All is well until the Whitmans - an apparently traditional family with new money and a secretly troubled teenaged daughter - raze the house and trees next door to build themselves a showplace. With little in common except a property line, these two very different families quickly find themselves at odds: First, over an historic oak tree in Valerie's yard, and soon after, the blossoming romance between their two teenagers.
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Wilmington's Lie
- The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy
- 著者: David Zucchino
- ナレーター: Victor Bevine
- 再生時間: 11 時間 26 分
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By the 1890s, Wilmington was North Carolina’s largest city and a shining example of a mixed-race community. It was a bustling port city with a burgeoning African American middle class and a Fusionist government of Republicans and Populists that included black aldermen, police officers, and magistrates. There were successful black-owned businesses and an African American newspaper, The Record. But across the state - and the South - white supremacist Democrats were working to reverse the advances made by former slaves and their progeny.
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Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich’s grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, D.C., this powerful novel explores themes of love and death with lightness and gravity and unfolds with the elegant prose, sly humor, and depth of feeling of a master craftsman.
Thomas Wazhushk is the night watchman at the jewel bearing plant, the first factory located near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a Chippewa Council member who is trying to understand the consequences of a new “emancipation” bill on its way to the floor of the United States Congress. It is 1953 and he and the other council members know the bill isn’t about freedom; Congress is fed up with Indians. The bill is a “termination” that threatens the rights of Native Americans to their land and their very identity. How can the government abandon treaties made in good faith with Native Americans “for as long as the grasses shall grow, and the rivers run”?
Since graduating high school, Pixie Paranteau has insisted that everyone call her Patrice. Unlike most of the girls on the reservation, Patrice, the class valedictorian, has no desire to wear herself down with a husband and kids. She makes jewel bearings at the plant, a job that barely pays her enough to support her mother and brother. Patrice’s shameful alcoholic father returns home sporadically to terrorize his wife and children and bully her for money. But Patrice needs every penny to follow her beloved older sister, Vera, who moved to the big city of Minneapolis. Vera may have disappeared; she hasn’t been in touch in months, and is rumored to have had a baby. Determined to find Vera and her child, Patrice makes a fateful trip to Minnesota that introduces her to unexpected forms of exploitation and violence, and endangers her life.
Thomas and Patrice live in this impoverished reservation community along with young Chippewa boxer Wood Mountain and his mother Juggie Blue, her niece and Patrice’s best friend Valentine, and Stack Barnes, the white high school math teacher and boxing coach who is hopelessly in love with Patrice.
In the Night Watchman, Louise Erdrich creates a fictional world populated with memorable characters who are forced to grapple with the worst and best impulses of human nature. Illuminating the loves and lives, the desires and ambitions of these characters with compassion, wit, and intelligence, The Night Watchman is a majestic work of fiction from this revered cultural treasure.
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- Melanie
- 2020/03/09
Beautiful
Louise Erdrich is an incredible author. I think I would have to be her to write a review that could do this justice but I’ll try- I enjoyed the Night Watchman so much that I’m going to buy a copy so that I can reread it, and so that I can dog ear the pages-there many profound and poetic moments in this book: “what was it to be dreamed of by a bear?” I will be recommending this one widely. Also this book is read by the author, and her voice is wonderful.
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- Navelgazing Writer
- 2020/03/09
Fantastic Introduction Into the Chippewa Life
Apologies in advance... Ms. Erdrich uses the terms Native Americans and Indigenous in articles, but some prefer the name Indian. Even though there are several bands of Chippewa and other tribes named in the book, I will use the blanket "Chippewa" for the review of the book and American Tribal Bands for others in our country. I apologize if I offend anyone from any Tribal Band. Despite having seen a few movies about the life of American Tribes and subsequently learning how awful they (the movies) were, it was so wonderful to read Erdrich's _The Night Watchman_ and know that she knows whence she speaks. I loved the flowing prose of moving between worlds, To the Chippewa, it was/is simply another dimension I am not aware enough to recognize. Through her writing, I could imagine living in a place where ghosts were common, guiding the living at times... where the sky lit up, not just with the Northern Lights, but with drummers and singers, offering knowledge and comfort to those that noticed they were there. I listened to the book (which Ms. Erdrich read beautifully, Chippewa words and all) and felt the shifts in location, situations and emotions easily and with clarity. Such a wonderful book. I loved it.
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- Mark
- 2020/06/17
Impressive but disjointed poetic novel
This novel is impossible to rate. Instead of a straightforward plot, this was more like a series of interrelated short stories. The writing was amazing, almost poetic. I see why others loved this book, but it did not totally work for me. I had a hard time keeping the characters and loose plot lines straight. I finally stopped trying, and tried to enjoy each little vignette as an stand-alone story. I began to enjoy it more. In the last third of the book, the two main story lines solidified. Thomas (based on the author's grandfather) was trying to fight the US government's abolition of their North Dakota Chippewa tribe. Meanwhile, Patrice traveled to a big city in search of her sister and her sister's child. This books portrays the best and worst of tribal life, including Native American mysticism (well done, but not my thing). In short, I enjoyed many parts but not the book as a whole. After twice biking through North Dakota reservations, I am glad I listened, and saw an inside look at tribal life. This was the most impressive book that I didn't love, but liked enough to finish.
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- barbara
- 2020/03/24
Best one yet
Fabulously read by the author, this book is captivating, amusing, heartbreaking, informative, and all-around perfect. I had to ration myself to only several hours a day so I could prolong the pleasure, and now that I'm done, I want to listen again immediately to the whole book,
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- Zu-Zu
- 2020/04/21
Took My Breath Away!
My highest recommendation for The Night Watchman. It becomes increasingly poetic through the end. Imaginative and at times humorous in a way that only Louise Erdrich can do and yet simple and grounded and real. You will love these characters, taste their food, and feel their deep sorrows but also celebrate their daily hopes and grand triumphs. The Night Watchman must become a classic.
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- ann Grill
- 2020/05/14
Bait and Switch
Louise Erdrich made a big pitch for her new book being about Native American history in 1950’s. Instead it was a very slow slog of sex among post adolescent. What a bore and useless in terms of educating non-native Americans about a little known chapter in American history. Don’t bother!
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- Marissa Purdoff
- 2020/07/14
Okay
I didn’t think this story was bad it just had too many characters for me and the storyline switched a lot. I thought it was going to be more mysterious when they went to find her sister but nothing ever came of that. Just a lot of lose ends to the many different plot lines for me.
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- Patrick
- 2020/04/17
Interesting story well told (and read).
The Author happens to be a talented reader - this is a rare treat for the listener. The title character, based on the Author's grandfather, was especially intriguing - a humble man possessing great wisdom. It is a multi-character narrative where all of the voices and perspectives feel authentic; the products of their place and time. Highly recommended for those who enjoyed The Round House.
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- Mary Leahy
- 2020/03/08
The NIght Watchman
I stayed up half the night listening to this good story. I gives you an interesting picture of Native Americans and all of their problems.
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- Ignatius
- 2020/06/23
Underwhelming
This book has a great premise that never takes fire -- it turns out to be more of a situation than a story. Erdrich is a skilled wordsmith, which makes parts of Watchmen a joy to read (or listen to -- the author is a terrific narrator.) However, you get the feeling this book could have been much more interesting if Erdrich had abandoned the based-on-a-true-story premise and just gone with a compelling narrative.