House Made of Dawn

House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday

House Made of Dawn was published in 1968 by N. Scott Momaday. This novel is widely known as one of the first Native American novels to break through mainstream media. The novel won a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1969 and has been recognized for Native American anthropology. House Made of Dawn is about a man named Abel who served in WWII, who drinks heavily and who seems to have some behavioral issues. He has an affair with a woman named Angela, and he even murders someone. After prison, he is placed in an Indian Relocation program in Los Angeles. The novel follows Abel and his alcoholism, and the death of his grandmother.