Book Review: The Sentence by Louise Erdrich

The Sentence
by Louise Erdrich (Erdrich)

I run to get my hands on every new Louise Erdrich novel, and The Sentence was especially wonderful and relevant during the pandemic. A woman named Tookie works at an independent bookstore in Minneapolis, where she is haunted by the ghost of Flora, the store’s most annoying customer. Taking place from November of 2019, when Flora died on All Saint’s Day, to November 2020, the novel addresses life during COVID and the Minneapolis protests following George Foreman’s murder by a police officer.

 

(If you enjoy this, you may also wish to try The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted by Robert Hillman.)

 

( pubisher’s official The Sentence web page ) | ( Louise Erdich page on Wikipedia )

 

Recommended by Jodi R.
Anderson and Bethany Branch Libraries

 

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