![]() ![]() He filled his hat, then his jacket, with the prickly green nuts. But along the edges of the grass road there were bushes loaded with pukkons. With a lot of boiling, you could eat them. Under the stands of oak, heaps of acorns lay in the grass. ![]() ![]() But there was only sere grass, rose hips, seed heads of black-eyed Susans, red willow. Thomas carried his rifle on the trail to his father’s house. She lives in Minnesota with her daughters and is the owner of Birchbark Books, a small independent bookstore. Her fiction has won the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award (twice), the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Louise Erdrich is the author of sixteen novels, volumes of poetry, children's books, and a memoir of early motherhood. The follow is an excerpt from Louise Erdich's new novel, The Night Watchman. ![]()
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