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The sentence by erdrich5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A lot of real estate in the book, which takes place in Minneapolis, is taken up by the violent aftermath of George Floyd’s murder, which Erdrich uses to highlight the integrity of Native and Black solidarity: “We have to stand with Black people because we know. While The Sentence sells itself as a ghost story and is certainly not lacking in the ghost department, it is primarily a pandemic story, illustrating how the onset of COVID-19 affects Tookie, her husband and her stepdaughter as well as her family of bookstore co-workers. It is a sprawling work that chronicles main character Tookie’s journey from one-time body smuggler who wanted to impress a girl and earn $26,000 to incarcerated person to bookstore employee and wife. The Sentence is the latest novel from Louise Erdrich, a prolific, Pulitzer prize-winning author of Ojibwe descent. And one unhaunted baby trailing clouds of glory.” ![]()
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