A National Book Award Winning Author
A Pulitzer Prize Winning Author
A National Book Critics Circle Award Winning Author
A small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the storea�TMs most annoying customer. Flora dies on All Soulsa�TM Day, but she simply wona�TMt leave the store. Tookie, who has landed a job selling books after years of incarceration that she survived by reading a��with murderous attention,a�\x9d 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.