The Sentence

The SentenceA wickedly funny ghost story, a tale of passion, a complex marriage, and a woman's relentless error, 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 Soul's Day, but she simply won't leave the store. Tookie, who has landed a job selling

the Cheyenne daredevil

bus depots

from children's books they recommend

But he doesn't seem to recognize Joan at all

David Heska Wanbli Weiden has written the first of what I hope is a series of books about life on Rosebud Reservation

but the guiding power of love remains

where she nourished an appreciation for painting

Dakota Sioux artist Mary Sully was the great-granddaughter of respected nineteenth-century portraitist Thomas Sully

The creative use of text and language throughout this collection suggests that creative use of language can become a bold way through the traps set up to confine speakers to sanctioned ways of expressing themselves

is an elder from the Leech Lake Reservation in Minnesota who currently lives in Cass Lake

With clues pointing in too many different directions

Mann's language is as plainspoken and clear as it is provocative