Bernadette is Wood Mountain’s half-sister. She lives in Minneapolis, and she reluctantly takes care of Vera’s baby after Vera disappears. Bernadette tells Patrice that she doesn’t know where Vera is, but she tells Wood Mountain that she is in the “hold,” which eventually leads to Patrice and Wood Mountain realizing that Vera is on a ship.
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Bernadette Blue Character Timeline in The Night Watchman
The timeline below shows where the character Bernadette Blue appears in The Night Watchman. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Log Jam 26
...but has another address that she doesn’t tell Wood Mountain about. That address is for Bernadette, Wood Mountain’s half-sister. When Wood Mountain gets off the train, he walks toward a bar....
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The Waterjack
...him and tells him she wants to go to the third address, which belongs to Bernadette Blue. Jack asks if she means Bernie Blue and if the two of them are...
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Iron Tulip
At Patrice’s insistence, they go next to Bernadette’s house. When Bernadette recognizes Patrice, she cries out with “sorrow and intensity.” Patrice asks her...
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Woodland Beauty
Wood Mountain gets off the train and walks to his sister Bernadette’s house. Bernadette tells him that Patrice had been there and that she was with Jack,...
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The Temple Beggar
...hotel next door and then to Wood Mountain’s room. As they leave to go to Bernadette’s, Patrice tells the attendant at the hotel that Jack from next door is dying in...
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