{"product_id":"9780062671134","title":"The Sentence: A Novel - Erdrich, Louise","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cu\u003eThe Sentence: A Novel\u003c\/u\u003e by Erdrich, Louise\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Trade Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished by Harper Perennial, 2022\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLouise Erdrich's 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003csmall\u003eProduct image is for illustration purposes only and may not be an exact representation of the product offered for sale.\u003c\/small\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial, 2022","offers":[{"title":"The Sentence: A Novel \/ Very Good","offer_id":55119690465572,"sku":"9780062671134VG","price":9.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/9951\/4148\/files\/public_4a794283-05fa-42dd-acca-08d25f0cf7c2.jpg?v=1781789051","url":"https:\/\/brookingsbooks.com\/products\/9780062671134","provider":"Brookings Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}