reviews of the sentence by louise erdrich

10% into the book and Tookie has already been to jail, gotten the bookstore job and been married.Have you ever seen an open door and bolted through it? How does this notion drive the narrative. Go!” Tookie reads this as one of her initial dictionary definitions.

Is the book meant to be somewhat autobiographical?

“Louise” is the bookstore owner and also an author, perhaps “the author” of the novel.

These questions have been tailored to this book’s specific reading experience, but if you want more ideas, we also have an article with 101 generic book club questions. 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. This means that if you choose to purchase, I’ll make a small commission.) The Sentence Synopsis We’ve also culled a few books from Tookie’s recommended reading as our recommendation for your next great read. Start with the synopsis below, does it begin to describe the complexity of the novel? Then use our discussion questions for The Sentence, along with some thought-provoking review snippets to get the conversation started.

And this guide is meant to help you get started with our The Sentence book club questions. But discussing how all of these threads weave together (or don’t) will give you fodder for a great conversation. Pick any one of those threads and you could have a good book group conversation. She’s packed in a ghost story, a redemption story, notes on the value of family (whether by blood or choice), cultural appropriation, the BLM movement and the melancholy of the COVID shutdown. What Louise Erdrich has accomplished with The Sentence is far more that your typical cozy bookshop novel.

Reviews of the sentence by louise erdrich