Brian Plunkett reviewed The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
Review of 'The Sentence' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
I ended up loving this book. I didn't quite buy the setup at the beginning; some aspects of the initial incident didn't make sense to me. That distracted and bothered me a little bit for a while, but I was still enjoying it. It started to feel like a collection of interesting short stories. But then at about 100 pages in, everything started to click. It got more exciting, and I got seriously drawn into Tookie's perspective and the overall story. It was educational for me on many levels (Indigenous history, incarceration, Minneapolis, etc.) and gave me a lot to think about, especially concerning the ways in which people are haunted. I really appreciated how it chronicled pandemic life in 2020, as well as George Floyd's murder and the aftermath.