num_pages: 454
description: Feeling oppressed by the romantic accounts of her famous family's history, Meg, the great-granddaughter of a southwestern frontierswoman, reluctantly accompanies her sharp-tongued grandmother to a family property that is being excavated and makes a discovery that challenges the authenticity of revered stories. 40,000 first printing.
language: English
title: The Night Journal
titlecomplete: The Night Journal
genres: Fiction, Family, Historical, American, Mystery, Westerns, Novels, Adult Fiction, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 1193
places: New Mexico
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Spur Award
category: Best Western Long Novel, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: WILLA Literary Award
category: Historical Fiction
publisher: Viking Adult