![]() Its mystery and proliferating ghost stories during this one year propel a narrative as rich, emotional and profound as anything Louise Erdrich has written. The Sentence begins on All Souls' Day 2019 and ends on All Souls' Day 2020. 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. He began working on the Malcolm X book in 1990 and compiled more than 100 hours of interviews, including with family members of the late Black activist, before he died. A small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store's most annoying customer.įlora dies on All Souls' Day, but she simply won't leave the store. The Pulitzer for The Dead Are Arising continues the posthumous acclaim for Les Payne, an award-winning Newsday journalist who died in 2018. ![]() Louise Erdrich's latest novel, The Sentence, asks what we owe to the living, the dead, to the reader and to the book. 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. ![]()
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