The Sentence -- Louise Erdrich, Hardcover

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.

Author: Louise Erdrich
Publisher: Harper
Published: 11/09/2021
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.22w x 1.50d
ISBN: 9780062671127

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 07/01/2021 pg. 8
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2021
Publishers Weekly 08/30/2021
Booklist 09/15/2021 pg. 19
Library Journal 12/17/2021 pg. 1