Night Watch: A Novel

Night Watch, winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, is set in 1874 in the aftermath of the Civil War. Twelve-year-old ConaLee travels by buckboard with her mute mother, Eliza, to the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in West Virginia, delivered there by a war veteran who has forced his way into their lives.

As ConaLee poses as her mother's maid and Eliza slowly responds to treatment, the two become caught up in the world of the asylum and its unforgettable staff, while the novel traces backward through war, loss, and the search for home. Written by West Virginia author Jayne Anne Phillips, it's a 304-page hardback from Knopf.

• 304 pages
• Hardback
• Publisher: Knopf
• Author: Jayne Anne Phillips, a West Virginia author
• 2024 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction