![]() Flora returns on All Soul’s Day to haunt the bookstore and in particular, Tookie. When Flora, the store’s most persistent customer, suddenly dies, her ghost refuses to leave. There she joins a dedicated community of artists and book lovers and begins to build a new life for herself. Revolving around a small independent bookstore in contemporary Minneapolis, The Sentence follows a turbulent year in the life of a strong though vulnerable Ojibwe woman named Tookie.Īfter serving part of an outrageously long sentence, Tookie, who “learned to read with murderous attention” while in prison, naturally gravitates toward working at a bookstore. In this powerful and timely novel, National Book Award winning author Louise Erdrich explores how the burdens of history, and especially identity, appropriation, exploitation, and violence done to human beings in the name of justice, manifest in ordinary lives today. ![]()
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