Even when she is not permitted to have them, she calls up a library in her head: “everything from the Redwall books to Huck Finn to Lilith’s Brood”.
Native Americans are the most oversentenced people currently imprisoned,” she says.īut while in prison, books are her salvation. “I was on the wrong side of the statistics. The judge who sends her away to a Minnesota jail is shocked by her crime Tookie, however, is not surprised by his harshness. Her friend Danae’s lover Budgie has died in the arms of his ex, Mara Danae persuades Tookie to steal a delivery truck in order to snatch Budgie’s body back. It’s 2005, and though Tookie is in her 30s, “I still clung to a teenager’s pursuits and mental habits” – drinking and drugging as though she is still an impulsive young adult. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.A s Louise Erdrich’s new novel begins, her heroine, Tookie, has been sentenced to 60 years in prison for an offence both horrible and ridiculous. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook. 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.
A small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store's most annoying customer. Flora dies on All Souls' Day, but she simply won't 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. 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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