The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
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The Sentence
- By: Louise Erdrich
- Narrated by: Louise Erdrich
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Categories: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Publisher's Summary
Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2022
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Night Watchman
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.
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©2021 Louise Erdrich (P)2021 Hachette Audio UK
Katarina
Beautiful
It was so lovely to hear the author read this story – loved it.
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Donna
The door is open – walk through
This is a superb book, superbly read. This gentle, intelligent voice takes you on a journey of love, loss, fallibility, caring, and honesty; of facing hard truths in a way that is true to the protagonist.
I have never read a book by this author before, but will now seek out everything she has written.
She has introduced me to the immediacy of the modern North American First Nations people through the eyes of a strong and warm woman who is working to find a way through being part of two cultures, fighting to plant her feet solidly on the earth, and to find a place for compassion and love in this time of chaos, extreme politics, and uncertainty.
A strong story, gently told.
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