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Watch Night: What We Carried Through Midnight

Watch Night: What We Carried Through Midnight

Wilde, Michael

Paperback

General Fiction

ISBN10: 1105793753
ISBN13: 9781105793752
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: Jan 15 2026
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Watch Night is a historical novel rooted in a single night-December 31, 1862-when enslaved people across the United States waited through darkness for a freedom promised but not yet realized. Told through a dual timeline, the novel moves between the voice of an enslaved woman recording her experience in a hidden diary and her present-day descendant discovering that record sewn into a dress passed down through generations. This is not a story of sudden liberation or clean endings. It is a story about waiting, watching, choosing, leaving, and surviving long enough to imagine tomorrow. Watch Night explores freedom not as a moment, but as a process-one that demands courage, restraint, community, and memory. It asks what it means to live in the space between promise and reality, and how the quiet decisions of ordinary people become the foundations of history.

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