Night Watch by Jayne Anne PhillipsMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
The writing is beautiful--Phillips writes her characters with such tenderness, but it is never overwrought. In fact, there's an interesting distance to the the narrative that keeps things feeling more historical than fictional. There were moments of dialogue that I felt dragged on a bit and the use of dialect made it challenging to engage, but that's more a failing of the reader (me) than the book. The story is incredible, tragic, and inspiring--to warrant all three of those adjectives is indeed a feat.
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