![]() I tried to remember that I didn’t need to have a professional take on events and in fact that would kill the story. Finally, in November 2019, I decided that I would start the book again and no matter what, I would not give up. I am not a journalist, so writing about things as they happen and trying to get perspective is a challenge. I kept getting stuck because it was set in real time. This book was going to be a ghost story set in a bookstore, with one of the booksellers contending with the haunting. I started The Sentence six or seven years ago. Did you start writing The Sentence before or after the pandemic began? Had you already decided to weave in current events? The pandemic and the protests that gripped Minneapolis following George Floyd’s murder are central to your new novel. ![]() ![]() (Hint: better than you’d expect!) Buy now: $27, A member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians and a resident of Minneapolis for more than 20 years, Erdrich shares her inspiration for the novel, her love of the city’s green spaces, and what it feels like to run a bookstore during the pandemic. In her latest novel, The Sentence (November 2021, HarperCollins), Pulitzer Prize–winning author Louise Erdrich chronicles the relationship between Tookie, a formerly incarcerated Ojibwe woman, and the ghost of a white woman haunting the Minneapolis bookstore where Tookie works-a store modeled after Erdrich’s own Birchbark Books. ![]()
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