Louise Erdrich The Sentence : Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2022

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMENS PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022PULITZER PRIZEWINNING AUTHOR OF THE NIGHT WATCHMANIn this stunning and timely novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Awardwinning author Louise Erdrich creates a wickedly funny ghost story, a tale of passion, of a complex marriage and of a womans relentless errors. Louise Erdrichs 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 stores most annoying customer. Flora dies on All Souls Day, but she simply wont 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. Erdrich is one of the greatest living American writers GuardianStrange, enchanting and funny a work about motherhood, doom, regret and the magic dark, benevolent and every shade in between of words on paper New York TimesThe poet laureate of the contemporary Native American experience Mail on Sunday | Louise Erdrich The Sentence : Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2022