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The Sentence

By Louise Erdrich
The Sentence by Louise Erdrich digital book - Fable

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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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3.5
Thinking Face“This book was a little slow for me as there wasn’t so much of a storyline. It started off strong but after a few chapters it slowed a bit. I did grow to feel for certain characters, and there were certain moments I felt the emotions but overall this was my least favourite book so far this year.”
Thinking Face“What an iconic book. Iconic because it was written about a historic time we experienced so recently, the rise of the COVID pandemic. But not only that, iconic because of Tookie’s struggle with Flora’s ghost, how Flora represented so many different struggles in her past, without Tookie even realizing it. This was a chilling read, and so informative at the same time. I read half of a physical copy, then listened to the audiobook for the rest. I loved hearing Erdrich narrate. It’s like I could see, hear, and feel Tookie myself.”

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