The Sentence

In "The Sentence," Pulitzer Prize-winning author Louise Erdrich weaves a captivating ghost story set in a Minneapolis bookstore haunted by an annoying customer named Flora after her death on All Souls' Day. Over the course of a tumultuous year from November 2019 to November 2020, Tookie, a recently released convict and bookstore employee, grapples with the mystery of Flora's haunting while navigating the profound events that shape her community. This novel explores themes of passion, complex relationships, and the intertwined fates of the living and the dead.