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Night Watch

by Jayne Anne Phillips · 2023

Literary Fiction · ranked #231 in category

Winner · The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2024

In the aftermath of the American Civil War, a mother and daughter arrive at a West Virginia asylum, and the novel moves between their story and the war years that brought them there. Phillips's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is about trauma, memory and the institutions that both housed and concealed the war's psychological wounds.

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Category
Literary Fiction
First published
2023 · 2020s
Author
Jayne Anne Phillips
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