The Sentence

Thank you TLCBook Tours and Harper Perennial for this gifted copy and having me on you tour.

Any book by Louise Erdrich should be on your list, and now is the perfect time to pick up her latest, 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲, which is now out in paperback. Why is it the perfect time to pic up this book? Well, it’s a ghost story!

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.

💬 𝐃𝐢𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐠𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐝𝐮𝐥𝐭?