02585cam a2200469 i 4500 1307642151 TxAuBib 20240606120000.0 220831s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2022039327 9780451493330 hardcover 0451493338 hardcover (OCoLC)1343161077 TxAuBib rda Phillips, Jayne Anne, 1952-, author. Night watch / Jayne Anne Phillips. First edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023. ©2023. 275 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "In 1874, in the wake of the Civil War, eleven-year-old ConaLee and her mother arrive at the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in West Virginia. They're delivered to the hospital's entrance by Papa--an abusive veteran who forces himself into their lives--after ConaLee's mother, who hasn't spoken in a year, grows even more withdrawn. Before he departs, Papa assigns them new identities and demands that ConaLee introduce herself as her mother's nurse--not her daughter--so they'll both be admitted and allowed to stay. There, far from family, their beloved neighbor, Dearbhla, and the home they know, ConaLee will care for her mother and try to reclaim their lives. Years earlier, ConaLee's father left for the war before she was born and never returned. After suffering a life-threatening head wound in battle, he couldn't remember his name, his family, or where he came from. Forced to start over, he takes the name of the doctor who gave him a second life, and ventures back into the world looking for work and the truth about his past"-- Provided by publisher. 20240606. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2024. Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum Fiction. Families Fiction. Mothers and daughters Fiction. Mental illness Fiction. Selective mutism Fiction. Amnesia Fiction. Psychic trauma Fiction. Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) Fiction. United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Fiction. Historical fiction. lcgft Domestic fiction. lcgft Medical fiction. Novels. Fiction. lcgft TXAAL