I have been feeling an inclination back in the direction of literary fiction, which was something that I didn’t think was likely to ever happen again. If I put it into perspective, I think that Erdrich was a casualty of my abandonment of literary fiction for law school, motherhood, a profession, and genre. So, I guess it’s been somewhere around 30 years. I remember finding both of them fairly stunning, along with A Yellow Raft in Blue Water, written by Dorris and published in 1987. It’s been a long time since I read a book by Louise Erdrich – I think that the last one was The Beet Queen, published in 1986, or maybe her co-written project with her ex-husband, Michael Dorris, The Crown of Columbus, published in 1991. 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. A small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store's most annoying customer. Louise Erdrich's latest novel, The Sentence, asks what we owe to the living, the dead, to the reader and to the book. Gift set includes the novel, a bone china Go Away I'm Reading Mug and a pair of adult size Go Away I'm Reading socks.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.The Sentence was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2022.įrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Night Watchman, 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.Ī wickedly funny ghost story, a tale of passion, of a complex marriage and of a woman's relentless errors. Our Brilliantly Bookish novels can be ordered on their own or as part of a fabulous Go Away I'm Reading gift set including a bone china mug and cosy reading socks.įlora dies on All Souls' Day, but she simply won't leave the store. What do we owe to the living, the dead, to the reader and to the book?Ī small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store's most annoying customer.

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