The Sentence

Tookie works as a bookseller in a small independent bookstore in Minneapolis. When the store’s most annoying customer dies on All Soul’s Day, her ghost simply refuses to leave their bookshelves. Tookie, who has landed the job after being released from years of wrongful incarceration, 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.