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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 incarce...

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Louise Erdrich is the rarest kind of writer, as compassionate as she is sharp-sighted Anne Tyler

"THE SENTENCE is a novel that reckons with ghosts-of both specific people but also the shadows resulting from America's violent, dark habits." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"Scintillating...More than a gripping ghost story, THE SENTENCE offers profound insights into the effects of the global pandemic and the collateral damage of systemic racism. It adds up to one of Erdrich's most...illuminating works to date." - Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Imaginative, boldly honest...This novel's persistent search for meaning reveals astonishing, sublime depths...Erdrich's prose, layered with unforgettable flourishes of detail...enhances and deepens this growing sense of a

larger collective haunting....The Sentence is a staggering addition to Erdrich's already impressive body of work." - BookPage

"The irreverent and funny Tookie grapples with the ghost, then the pandemic, then the protests. Her journey, captured in Erdrich's expert prose, is a cathartic and comforting story that book lovers will gobble up." - Real Simple

"Erdrich's fictional worlds bristle with the awareness that we are all ghosts-in-waiting and that the written word is a way to communicate with people both long dead and not yet born. This is how Erdrich can write a haunting story without invoking even the slightest hint of the gothic; how she blends contemporary politics with myth without breaking a stride." - Jo Livingstone, The New Republic

"A bewitching novel...Strange, enchanting and funny: a work about motherhood, doom, regret and the magic-dark, benevolent and every shade in between-of words on paper." - Molly Young, New York Times

"THE SENTENCE is a wonder...an utterly original, exhilarating novel...that burns with moral passion, brims with humor, and captivates with its striking and irresistible voice...A testament to the life-making importance of stories." - Priscilla Gilman, Boston Globe

"Among Erdrich's most magical novels...The Sentence is a ghost story that hovers between the realms of historical horror and cultural comedy...Moving at its own peculiar rhythm with a scope that feels somehow both cloistered and expansive, it captures a traumatic year in the history of a nation struggling to appreciate its own diversity." - Ron Charles, Washington Post

"The Sentence has a sometimes disconcerting you-are-there quality...though the events do amplify the novel's themes of social and personal connection and dissociation, and of the historic crimes and contemporary aggressions, micro and overt, perpetuated in the name of white supremacy." - Minneapolis Star-Tribune

"A deceptively big novel, various in its storytelling styles; ambitious in its immediacy...An absorbing and unquiet novel...that seems 'essential' for a deeper take on the times we are living through." - Maureen Corrigan, NPR

"As timely as it is unexpected: a pandemic ghost story, The Sentence captures the quietly simmering fury of summer 2020...Tookie's voice is genuine and humorous, her perspective rich with history and literacy." - Entertainment Weekly

"The many-hued, finely patterned weave of Erdrich's funny, evocative, painful, and redemptive ghost story includes strands of autobiography...Erdrich's insights into what her city Minneapolis experienced in 2020 are piercing; all her characters are enthralling, and her dramatization of why books are essential to our well-being is resounding." - Booklist (starred review)

"The Sentence testifies repeatedly to the power books possess to heal us and yes, to change our lives...There are books like this one, that while they may not resolve the mysteries of the human heart, go a long way toward shedding light on our predicaments. In the case of The Sentence, that's plenty." - New York Times Book Review

"This novel, with its spiky yet warm main character and homage to the world of bookselling and reading, is an utterly delightful read that doesn't shy away from 2020's misery and uncertainty." - Buzzfeed

"Dazzling...A hard-won love letter to readers and to booksellers, as well as a compelling story about how we cope with pain and fear, injustice and illness. One good way is to press a beloved book into another's hands. Read The Sentence and then do just that." - USA Today (four stars)

"No one escapes heartache in The Sentence, but mysteries old and new are solved, and some of the broken places made stronger. The Sentence, a book about the healing power of books, makes its own case splendidly." - Tampa Bay Times

"Erdrich's playful wit and casual style belie a seriousness of purpose, which in the case of this winning novel, entails tackling the pandemic, the death of George Floyd, the trials of doing time in prison and not least, the power of books to change lives." - New York Times Book Review, Editor's Choice

"The Sentence sings when it traces how current events inflect Tookie's connection to Pollux...Erdrich's gifts-an intensity of honesty, a summoning of feeling that exhausts itself, deliriously, in images-are on full display here. The images reverberate because the feelings are true." - The New Yorker

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eBook, ePUB It is just a favour that Tookie wants to do for her grieving friend, admittedly, a well-paid favour since stealing the body of the lately deceased boyfriend can solve all of Tookie's financial problems. Of course, things turn out as they always do and the young woman is sentenced to sixty years of … Mehr It is just a favour that Tookie wants to do for her grieving friend, admittedly, a well-paid favour since stealing the body of the lately deceased boyfriend can solve all of Tookie's financial problems. Of course, things turn out as they always do and the young woman is sentenced to sixty years of prison. A good lawyer can bring her out after only a couple of them and as she spent most of her time reading, she starts to work in a bookshop. With her partner Pollox, she seems to be back on the good track of life, but sorting out her personal life does not sort out the world around her. And when simultaneously the pandemic hits, when police violence against people of colour escalates and becomes a public issue and, additionally, when the bookshop is haunted by the ghost of a former customer, Tookie has to handle a lot which threatens to bring back the angry young woman she once was. Louise Erdrich has written maybe THE novel of the moment. "The Sentence" not only integrates several current events such as the pandemic, the Black Lives Matter movement and America's fragile state before the 2020 election, or questions of identity, but also mythological aspects, old stories told over generations and over continents, stories which have been around as long a mankind itself. It is also the account of one woman, a woman who made mistakes, who has not always been fair since she is strong-minded, but a woman who has the heart on the right side. It is not easy to determine where to put the focus on when talking about the novel. It seems to be eclectic, yet, this is just like life itself. It feels overwhelming at times with all the things happening at the same time, conflicting narratives which make it hard to make sense of all around you. What I liked best was how the pandemic was integrated into the story. The author well incorporated everyday questions - why are people bulk buying? how dangerous will the virus be? what will happen to the bookstore? - into the plot, not giving it too much room but authentically showing how it affected life. This is also where we see Tookie's good heart when she worries about her customers and tries to find ways of providing them with further reading material. The side line of the ghost was first a kind of gothic element but it ultimately triggers the question of identity. Tookie belongs to the indigenous population, which is simply a fact, yet, one that has a huge impact on the way her life went. With it comes the big question of racial appropriation which seems so easy to answer but actually isn't always. The protagonist craves normal in a time when nothing is normal. It is a year of a chain of nightmares that finally closes. “The Sentence” is also a book about how literature can provide an escape and possibly also answers when reality does not anymore. Towards the end of a year, an absolute literary gem with a wonderful annexe. Weniger

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