A review by hopesquirreled
Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips

challenging dark slow-paced

2.0

I liked elements of this, there was clearly a lot of research put into representing the true Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum and the "moral treatment" advocated by Thomas Story Kirkbride. I liked the themes about war, trauma, abuse, memory, healing, but the predictability of the plot was a drawback. 

I listened to the audiobook, and I do think it was well performed. Though difficult to follow the hazy, meandering sentences sometimes, after reading others' reviews, it doesn't seem like that experience was unique to the audiobook version.
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