The Sentence

By: Louise Erdrich

Narrated by: Louise Erdrich

In this stunning and timely 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.

Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

Hard to hear

There were parts I totally tuned out because this book was narrated in a strained whisper for the entire book. The story was great, but the narrator comes across as being more interested in sounding like a performance (one where the narrator is having a hard time or is sick or just likes for you to only understand half of what’s being said or trying to be an unintelligible Terri Gross). I really wish it was told with more care for the story and less care for sounding like a true crime podcast.

loved this story

I am of indigenous descent and quite accustomed to cultural flair I was thoroughly entertained.

Amazing story with depth and heart.

Amazing story with depth and heart. I connected, I felt and I learned. Oh the books!

Great, as always

I’ve read or listened to four of Louise Erdrich’s books and loved each of them. Keep ‘em coming!

The easy way way written and delivered

I liked the way it was written and the characters. The humor and realness of the story