The Night Wanderer: A Native Gothic Novel is a novel by Canadian author Drew Hayden Taylor published by Annick Press in 2007. The work is a novelization of Taylor's 1992 play A Contemporary Gothic Indian Vampire Story. Plot Sixteen-year-old Anishinaabe teen Tiffany Hunter struggles to adjust after her mother, Claudia, abandons the family to go live with a white man. The one bright spot in Tiffany's life is her recent relationship with Tony. Tiffany and Tony's relationship is made difficult by the fact that he is white and lives in the wealthier suburb of Baymeadow while she and the majority of her friends live on Otter Lake, a poor reserve. He also begins to use her status card in order to not pay sales tax. Tiffany's friends warn her that he may be using her for her card, but Tiffany is reassured when she asks him to stop asking her to use it and he does. Meanwhile, her father Keith, who has been struggling financially since the departure of his wife, decides to try to rent out a room in the Hunter home. It is taken almost immediately by a man who calls himself Pierre L’Errant and who claims to be from Europe and keeps strange habits, insisting on staying in the basement room where there are no windows and sleeping all day. Pierre is Anishinaabe and lived in a village in the same location as Otter Lake hundreds of years ago, but tells Keith that he has two great-grandparents who immigrated to Europe during World War I in order to stave off questions. Finally back in the land of his birth, Pierre reflects back on his childhood as a boy named Owl who ran away with French fur traders to France. Once there he was brought to live with the French king as a member of his court. After contracting measles he was on the verge of death when he a man came through his window and exchanged blood with him turning him into a vampire. After being told that a friend of Tony's is wearing a bracelet matching Tiffany's that Tony claimed he bought for his mother, Tiffany confronts her boyfriend. He breaks up with her claiming that the pressure put on him by his racist parents and friends is too much. A distraught Tiffany calls her mother in Edmonton and asks to live with her. She discovers