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Louise Erdrich, author of The Sentence

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 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.

Week of September 5, 2022

Paperback releases for the week of September 5th include MATRIX, Lauren Groff's defiant and timely exploration of the raw power of female creativity in a corrupted world; OUR COUNTRY FRIENDS by Gary Shteyngart, an elegiac novel about love, friendship, family and betrayal revolving around eight friends, one country house and six months in isolation; Louise Erdrich's wickedly funny ghost story, THE SENTENCE, a tale of passion, a complex marriage and a woman's relentless errors; Lisa Unger's LAST GIRL GHOSTED, a riveting thriller about an online dating match turned deadly cat-and-mouse game in which secrets, obsession and vengeance converge; and THREE SISTERS, a story of family, courage and resilience from Heather Morris, the bestselling author of the multi-million-copy bestseller THE TATTOOIST OF AUSCHWITZ and CILKA'S JOURNEY.