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SUMMARY:12/7: Different Eras- Historical Fiction - The Night Watchman
DESCRIPTION:12/7: Different Eras- Historical Fiction Book Club at Booksweet \nCome join us for a cozy afternoon at Booksweet for our second Historical Fiction Book Club on Sunday\, December 7! At our first meting\, we selected The Nightwatchman by Louise Erdrich. Whether you’re a history buff or just starting to explore the genre\, this book club is for you! To help transport the club to another time and place\, we will also offer tea and refreshments! \nYour Eventbrite RSVP is so helpful to our planning! \nAbout the book // \nBased 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. \nThomas Wazhashk 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”? \nSince 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. \nThomas 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. \nIn 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. \nSo… what’s this book club like? // \nThis is just our second historical fiction book club! We hope to invite a group of people who have read the book (or don’t mind a spoiler) to discuss their thoughts. We will bring prompts but invite anyone to pose a question or share their thoughts! \nAfter a good discussion\, the group votes on the next session’s read. Feel free to pitch a book you’ve enjoyed recently or share a new book that you want to read with the group. \nWhile we will have tea\, water\, and light refreshments (including nut-free and gluten-free options)\, Booksweet is located in The Courtyard Shops\, filled with AMAZING dining options. Food and drinks are totally welcome at the meet-up; don’t feel shy about sipping boba while we chat!
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LOCATION:Booksweet\, 1729 Plymouth Road\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48105\, United States
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SUMMARY:12/7: Author Reading Featuring Ann Epstein\, Maureen Aitken and Keith Hood
DESCRIPTION:12/7: Afternoon Reading Featuring Ann Epstein\, Maureen Aitken and Keith Hood \nCome join us for an afternoon of readings at Booksweet! We are thrilled to welcome Ann Arbor authors Ann Epstein\, Maureen Aitken and Keith Hood reading from selected works. \nAnn S. Epstein (she/her) writes novels\, stories\, memoir\, poems\, and essays. Her awards include a Pushcart Prize creative nonfiction nomination\, Walter Sullivan fiction prize\, Historical Novel Review Editors’ Choice selection\, and St. Lawrence Book Award Finalist nomination. Her novels are On the Shore\, Tazia and Gemma\, A Brain. A Heart. The Nerve.\, The Great Stork Derby\, One Person’s Loss\, and The Sister Knot\, and Who Cares? (in press). Her other work appears in North American Review\, Sewanee Review\, PRISM International\, Ascent\, The Long Story\, and elsewhere. She also has a PhD in developmental psychology\, MFA in fiber art\, and certification as an end-of-life doula. Her website is https://www.asewovenwords.com. \nMaureen Aitken‘s award-winning short story collection was reissued by Wayne State University in September\, 2025. It has won The Nilson Prize\, The Foreword Review Gold Prize\, and received a Kirkus Star. Her stories have been published widely in journals such as Prairie Schooner\, New Letters\, and The Missouri Review. Most recently\, her story was a finalist for The Missouri Review’s Perkoff Prize. She has taught at The University of Michigan\, Hamline University\, and The University of Minnesota. \nKeith Hood is a former janitor and window cleaner. He retired from a job as a field technician for a Michigan electric utility after 32 years avoiding electrocution. His prose and poetry have appeared in Blue Mesa Review\, Quick Fiction\, Flash Fiction Magazine\, 50 Give or Take\, Your Impossible Voice\, one sentence poems\, Five Minutes One Hundred Words\, The Forge Literary Journal\, and Vestal Review. Keith’s photography has appeared in Ontario Review\, Helen: A Literary Journal\, The Grief Diaries\, Storm Cellar Street Lit\, and F-Stop\, and in an exhibition at The Toledo Museum of Art.
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LOCATION:Booksweet\, 1729 Plymouth Road\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48105\, United States
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