EAN: 9780063205628

THE SENTENCE - LOUISE ERDRICH KARTONIERT (TB)

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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