The Sentence
โ Scribed by Louise Erdrich
- Book ID
- 112055591
- Publisher
- Harper
- Year
- 2021
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 592 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780062671141
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
In this very brave, unusual, and forceful 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 error.
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 Soul's 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 surviving all that occurs in Minneapolis during a year of grief, astonishment, isolation, and furious reckoning.
The Sentence begins on All Soul's Day 2019 and ends on All Soul's Day 2020. Its mystery and...
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