The sentence by erdrich5/11/2023 ![]() She’s only half a figment of Louise Erdrich’s imagination-Erdrich owns Birchbark Books and Native Arts in Minneapolis. ![]() She knows her Jean Rhys and her Turgenev, her Amitav Ghosh and Stendhal, her Clarice Lipsector, Joseph Conrad and Octavia Butler, and, as an Ojibwe woman of a certain age, her Native American annals and lore. Tookie, the self-deprecating, shoot-from-the-hip heroine of Erdrich’s seventeenth novel, is just minding her own business, which happens to be helping run a small independent bookstore in Minneapolis specializing in Indigenous history and literature and a whole lot more that Tookie cares a great deal about, and abundantly shares with anyone who enters the store, or her life. ![]() Death is no joke in The Sentence, by Louise Erdrich, but it has a funny way of saying so. ![]()
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