Finalist for the National Book Award for NonfictionBest Books of the Year
On the eve of a treaty conference between Iroquois leaders and European colonists in 1722, two white fur traders attacked an Indigenous hunter and left him for dead near Conestoga, Pennsylvania. An absorbing chronicle built around an extraordinary group of characters - from the slain man's widow to the Indigenous diplomat known as "Captain Civility" to the scheming governor of Pennsylvania - Covered with Night transforms a single event intoan unforgettable portrait of early America. It ultimately revives a lost vision of crime and punishment that reverberates down into our own time.