The Sentence

De: Louise Erdrich

Narrado por: Louise Erdrich

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.

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©2021 Louise Erdrich (P)2021 HarperCollins Publishers

an interesting take on a difficult year

perhaps would have been better for me to have read rather than listen to this.

top ten

the tenderness she has for her characters is inspiring. listen to it. cannot recommend this book highly enough.

Omg it’s covid fiction already

I enjoyed this book and had literally no idea what I was getting into because it was picked out for a book club. That said, very early I was like Tookie and Benji? What are we on the rez? Yes, we were. Should’ve known from the author. Then I thought it was a prison book. Then a supernatural book. Finally a BLM (from AIM perspective) and COVID book. No, it’s everything all in one. I enjoyed it a lot.

A wonderful book

Another great story from Louise Erdrich. It is a generous book full of heart. Populated by a variety of delightful complex characters. I wholeheartedly recommend this book.

PHENOMENAL

The novel is engaging throughout. The accurate depiction of the killing of George Floyd and the beginning of the pandemic struck me as I listened to those horrific current events replayed.

unforgettable!

I marveled at the performance of reading this book, not realizing it was Louise herself! The character Tookie, whose story she tells, is an unforgettable, humanly flawed, deeply lovable woman i will never forget. Erdich walks a formidable line here as a writer, giving us Shakespearean humor while allowing those of us who are not Native American to walk in the shoes of a woman whose Native heritage shapes her entire reality.

Breathless

Thinking E.A. Poe, working as a book reviewer, stated that ART had to be both entertaining and instructive. In this readers opinion, L. Erdrich is an artist. Would have rated three or four stars; however, the resonance factor pushed me over the edge. Believe has or will do same for many readers. Thank you, Ms. Erdrich.

Beautiful Story

A timely story told with relevance that will live on. At times the cadence of the reader was off but overall it is well worth the listen.

Great Book!

Louise Erdrich has written another beautiful book weaving in the Native culture with life in Minnesota before and after the George Floyd murder. It was also great that she wrote about people working in her book store. She usually does not identify herself in her stories, but this time she did and it was great. She was not a main character in this novel as those honors went to Tootie, Pollocks, his daughter Henna and the baby Jarvis. They were interesting characters!

wonderfully funny and sad

Books, ghosts, joys, sorrows are all woven with skill, passion and art into a masterpiece....