Backlist Book Club; The Sentence

Name: Backlist Book Club; The Sentence
Start: 2025-11-23T14:00:00-05:00
Location: 2122 Scott St., Lafayette, IN, United States, Indiana 47904

Schedule

Sun, 23 Nov, 2025 at 02:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

2122 Scott St., Lafayette, IN, United States, Indiana 47904 | Lafayette, IN

Join us for our monthly book club discussion! All are welcome as we discuss The Sentence by Louise Erdrich. You do not need to register, simply show up to chat about the book (be okay with spoilers if you haven't finished!).
About the book: In this New York Times bestselling novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich creates a wickedly funny ghost story, a tale of passion, of a complex marriage, and of a woman's relentless errors.
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. 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.