Night Watch Sally McKenney But for Mindy

But for Mindy

Inspired by a footnote to history—the true story of the little-known Simnel

whose “restless imagination is a power that cannot be contained” (The New York Times Book Review)

She has slain legendary beasts

And all the while

Night Watch Sally McKenney But for MindyIn 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, renegades and wanderers, freedmen and runaways. Twelve year old ConaLee, the adult in her family for as long as she can remember, finds herself on a buckboard journey with her mother, Eliza, who hasnt spoken in more than a year. They arrive at the Trans Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in West Virginia, delivered to the hospitals entrance by a war veteran who has