November: \;The Sentence \;by Louise Erdrich
\n"Dazz ling. . . . A hard-won love letter to readers and to booksellers\, as well as a compelling story about how we cope with pain and fear\, injustice an d illness. One good way is to press a beloved book into another's hands. R ead \;The Sentence \;and then do just that."&mdash\;USA Today\,&nb sp\;Four Stars
\nIn this \;New York Times \ ;bestselling novel\, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award&ndash\;winning author Louise Erdrich creates a wickedly funny ghost story\, a tale of pa ssion\, of a complex marriage\, and of a woman's relentless errors.
\nLouise Erdrich's latest novel\, \;The Sentence \, asks what we owe to the living\, the dead\, to the reader and to the bo ok. A small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store's most annoying customer. \;Flora d ies 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 sh e survived by reading "with murderous attention\," must solve the mystery of this haunting while at the same time trying to understand all that occu rs in Minneapolis during a year of grief\, astonishment\, isolation\, and furious reckoning.
\nThe Sentence \;begins on All Souls ' Day 2019 and ends on All Souls' Day 2020. Its mystery and proliferating ghost stories during this one year propel a narrative as rich\, emotional\ , and profound as anything Louise Erdrich has written. \;
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