She is a voracious reader who gets a job in the bookstore through one of her old teachers who kept in touch while Tookie was in prison. Tookie is an excon and recovering drug addict who is married to the retired Potawatamie cop who arrested her and sent her to prison. The plot of The Sentence focuses on an Ojibwe woman named Tookie through whom Erdrich tells the story. Those themes serve as the framework of The Sentence. They find solace and peace in their heritage, books, and in each other.Įrdrich, who won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Night Watchman, uses her books to explore the struggles of Native Americans past and present and to celebrate Native American culture. Erdrich was deeply affected by the murder of George Floyd and confused and terrified by the COVID-19 pandemic and so are the very bookish women who work in the bookstore. Erdrich owns a bookstore that specializes in Native American books and art, the novel is set in a bookstore that specializes in Native American books and art. Erdrich lives in Minneapolis, the novel is set in Minneapolis. Readers familiar with Louise Erdrich’s biography will quickly notice the similarities between her life and the details of her new novel The Sentence.
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