The last few were ones that I didn’t feel any inclination towards, I simply wasn’t opposed to them, and so I let them pass. If I’m the one running book club, I’m the one having the final say over the books chosen. This book is the one that led to my book club epiphany. Small bookstores have the romance of doomed intimate spaces about to be erased by unfettered capitalism.Ĭlick on this graphic to explore the book page on LibraryThing! Review 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. Flora dies on All Souls’ Day, but she simply won’t leave the store. A small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store’s most annoying customer. Louise Erdrich’s latest novel, The Sentence, asks what we owe to the living, the dead, to the reader and to the book. Two months later and I still can’t decide how I feel about it. Another old book club selection from December, not my pick, but one I think I’m glad I’m read.
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