The Sentence: A Novel

"Fresh off of winning the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for The Night Watchman, Louise Erdrich follows up with The Sentence, an intimate novel that’s a bit offbeat, yet filled with mordant humor. The story spans one year, from All Souls’ Day 2019 to All Souls’ Day 2020, in the life of Tookie, a Native American woman in Minneapolis. Tookie’s fresh out of prison and working at Birchbark Books – the same store Erdrich owns in real life – when she finds herself having to fend off a stubborn spirit as the novel coronavirus begins to wreak havoc in the country and the killing of George Floyd sparks outrage in their city, then the world."