Its mystery and proliferating ghost stories during this one year propel a narrative as rich, emotional, and profound as anything Louise Erdrich has written. The Sentence begins on All Souls' Day 2019 and ends on All Souls' Day 2020. 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. Flora dies on All Souls' Day, but she simply won't leave the store. Louise Erdrich’s ‘LaRose’: A gun accident sets off a masterly tale of grief and love Getting Flora to rest in peace will be harder than any sale Tookie has ever made, and that exorcism soon. A small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store's most annoying customer. The novel's narrative present spans the year between November 2019 to November 2020. The novel is set in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Louise Erdrich's latest novel, The Sentence, asks what we owe to the living, the dead, to the reader and to the book. Louise Erdrich's novel The Sentence is written from both the first and third person points of view, and employs both the past and present tenses. 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.
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