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The Sentence (Hardcover, 2021, Harper) 4 stars

Louise Erdrich's latest novel, The Sentence, asks what we owe to the living, the dead, …

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.