The Sentence A Novel
The Sentence by Louise Erdrich is a novel published by HarperCollins Publishers in 2021, featuring 386 pages in English. This work presents a ghost story set in a small independent bookstore in Minneapolis, where the narrative unfolds over a year marked by significant events, including grief and social reckoning. The story centers on Tookie, a woman who, after years of incarceration, finds herself navigating the complexities of her new job while dealing with the haunting presence of a deceased customer, Flora.
Readers will encounter a blend of humor and depth as Tookie grapples with the mysteries of the living and the dead. The novel explores themes of passion, relationships, and the impact of literature on life’s challenges. Through Tookie’s journey, the book reflects on the connections between readers, books, and the emotional landscapes shaped by personal and collective experiences. The Sentence invites exploration of these intricate dynamics within the context of a year filled with transformation and reflection.
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“Dazzling. . . . A hard-won love letter to readers and to booksellers, as well as a compelling story about how we cope with pain and fear, injustice and illness. One good way is to press a beloved book into another’s hands. Read The Sentence and then do just that.”–USA Today, Four Stars
In this New York Times bestselling 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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