THE SENTENCE

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 indepe ndent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store's most annoying customer. Flora dies on A ll Souls' Day, but she simply won't leave the store. Tookie, who has landed a job selling books after years of incarceration that sh e survived by reading with murderous attention, must solve the mystery of this haunting while at the same time trying to understand all that ...[Read more]