The story follows both Pierre L’Errant (also known as Owl) and his return to Otter Lake, as well as Tiffany Hunter’s trials and tribulations as a teen growing up. His depictions of the community and its people creates a vivid picture and a mind statement of “Hey, I think I know that place.” By centring the story on a fictional reserve somewhere in southern Ontario, however, Taylor includes a sense of longing for the past, a desire to be in the present, and a need to engage in the future for all the characters. In the vein of gothic novels, Taylor’s work holds an ominous foreboding presence always just out of reach for the characters and reader. The Night Wanderer It is an Indigenization of the gothic novel with power and flair of its own – it is Taylor-Gothic. Yet, this novel is not simply a copy or homage to Bram Stoker. Aimed at a youth reader, Drew Hayden Taylor’s gothic novel, The Night Wanderer, is truly a marvellous read for anyone interested in a new Dracula’esque story.
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