The Sentence, Louise Erdrich
The Sentence, Louise Erdrich
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The Sentence

Bestseller

Author: Louise Erdrich

Narrator: Louise Erdrich

Unabridged: 11 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 11/09/2021

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

In this stunning and timely 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. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

About Louise Erdrich

Louise Erdrich, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, is the award-winning author of many novels as well as volumes of poetry, children’s books, and a memoir of early motherhood. Erdrich lives in Minnesota with her daughters and is the owner of Birchbark Books, a small independent bookstore.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ron on November 09, 2021

The coronavirus pandemic is still raging away and God knows we’ll be reading novels about it for years, but Louise Erdrich’s “The Sentence” may be the best one we ever get. Neither a grim rehashing of the lockdown nor an apocalyptic exaggeration of the virus, her book offers the kind of fresh reflec......more

Goodreads review by Will on November 26, 2021

It was like the beginning of every show where the streets empty and something terrifying emerges from mist or fire.---------------------------------------I passed streams of people with signs, packs, water bottles. I passed squad cars and squadrons. I passed burnt-out stores with walls like b......more

Goodreads review by Candi on April 26, 2022

To my dear Goodreads friends that adored this book, I apologize for having to sit out this particular dance. It’s not that I loathed it; I just didn’t feel particularly moved by it. I didn’t want to get out of my chair and let loose. The rhythm threw me off quite often, and the character of the tune......more

Goodreads review by Angela M on November 29, 2021

Sentence , a word of multiple meanings - the sentence that the main character, an ex con named Tookie serves in jail, the sentences in this book and the so many other books mentioned here, (thankfully Erdrich gave us a list at the end), the sentences the characters sometimes impose on themselves . T......more

Goodreads review by Canadian Jen on June 24, 2022

Erdrich is a master of prose. Her characters are both complex and real. Her stories layered with rich native culture. Tookie is a quirky if not whacky but endearing character. After serving her sentence for a crime she didn’t think was a crime, but just helping out a friend and then framed for it, sh......more