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Sentence

Erdrich, Louise

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022

PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE NIGHT WATCHMAN
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In this stunning and timely novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich creates a wickedly funny ghost story, a tale of passion, of a complex marriage and of a woman’s relentless errors.

Louise Erdrich’s latest novel, The Sentence, asks what we owe to the living, the dead, to the reader and to the book. A small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store’s most annoying customer. Flora dies on All Souls’ Day, but she simply won’t leave the store. Tookie, who has landed a job selling books after years of incarceration that she survived by reading ‘with murderous attention,’ must solve the mystery of this haunting while at the same time trying to understand all that occurs in Minneapolis during a year of grief, astonishment, isolation and furious reckoning.

The Sentence begins on All Souls’ Day 2019 and ends on All Souls’ Day 2020. Its mystery and proliferating ghost stories during this one year propel a narrative as rich, emotional and profound as anything Louise Erdrich has written.

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‘Erdrich is one of the greatest living American writers’ Guardian

‘Strange, enchanting and funny: a work about motherhood, doom, regret and the magic – dark, benevolent and every shade in between – of words on paper’ New York Times

‘The poet laureate of the contemporary Native American experience’ Mail on Sunday

Format: Paperback
Pages: 400
Imprint: Corsair/Constable & Robin
Publication date: 26/09/2022

Staff review

The Sentence

by Louise Erdrich

Review by Bel

A funny, devastating and delightfully bookish novel bursting with themes and plotlines – just like life! Set in a haunted bookshop during the turbulent times of 2020, it paints a complex, zany picture of America through the deeply flawed but loveable character of Tookie. Erdrich plays with the idea of ‘a sentence’ in such interesting ways. Literally – through Tookie’s incarceration – and metaphorically – through the ways in which indigenous lives have been sentenced to a white post-colonial world. I didn’t think I was ready to read about Covid yet, but I was moved by its sensitive treatment here. Also, at the back there's a ‘Totally Biased List of Tookie’s Favorite Books’! Delicious! And perhaps from Erdrich herself?

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