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Night Watch, winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, is a masterful novel set in a West Virginia hospital during the 1970s. Jayne Anne Phillips follows four night-shift workers—a nurse, a orderly, a security guard, and a cleaning woman—whose lives intersect in the quiet hours of darkness.
Through beautifully rendered prose and deeply empathetic characterization, Phillips weaves together their stories to reveal the profound connections between seemingly ordinary people. The novel explores themes of love, loss, sacrifice, and the search for meaning in everyday life.
Set against the backdrop of post-industrial America, Night Watch captures a transformative moment in American history while focusing on the intimate human dramas that unfold within the hospital’s walls. Phillips’ lyrical writing and nuanced exploration of working-class lives make this a powerful meditation on what it means to be human.
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