Night watch / Jayne Anne Phillips.
Momo rauemi: TextKaiwhakaputa: London : Fleet, 2023Whakaahuatanga: 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- volume
- 9780349727806
- 0349727805
- 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
Momo tuemi | Tauwāhi onāianei | Kohinga | Tau karanga | Tūnga | Rā oti | Waeherepae | Ngā puringa tuemi | |
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Fiction | Hāwera LibraryPlus Fiction | Fiction | PHIL (Tirotirohia te whatanga(Opens below)) | Wātea | i2236487 |
In 1874, in the wake of the war, trauma haunts civilians and veterans, renegades and wanderers, freedmen and runaways. Twelve-year-old ConaLee and her mother, Eliza, who hasn't spoken in more than a year, arrive at the Trans-Allegh eny Lunatic Asylum in West Virginia, delivered to the hospital's entrance by a war vet eran who has forced himself into their lives. There, far from family, a beloved neighbour, and the mountain home they knew, they try to reclaim their lives. The twin horrors of war and race rise to the surface as we learn their history: their flight to the highest mountain ridges of western Virginia; the disappearance of ConaLee's father, who left for the war and never returned. Meanwhile in the asylum, they begin to find a new path. ConaLee pretends to be her mother's maid; Eliza responds slowly to treatment. They get swept up in the life of the facility the mystery behind the man they call the Night Watch; the child called Weed; the fearsome woman who runs the kitchen; the remarkable doctor at the head of the institution.
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