The Sentence

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022
PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE NIGHT WATCHMAN

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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.

Louise Erdrich's latest novel, The Sentence, asks what we owe to the living,
the dead, to the reader and to the book. 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.

The 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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'Erdrich is one of the greatest living American writers' Guardian

'Strange, enchanting and funny: a work about motherhood, doom, regret and the
magic - dark, benevolent and every shade in between - of words on paper' New
York Times

'The poet laureate of the contemporary Native American experience' Mail on
Sunday