The Sentence

by Louise Erdrich

First published 2021

Tookie, a former inmate, lands a job at a bookstore in Minneapolis. But the store is no ordinary shop - it's haunted by the ghost of a customer who died there. As Tookie navigates her new life, she finds herself drawn into the store's eerie history and the unsettling presence that lingers. With the ghost growing more insistent, Tookie must confront her own troubled past to uncover the truth and put the spirits to rest.

Genres: fiction, literary-fiction, mystery, contemporary, thriller, paranormal

Vibes: atmospheric, dark, emotional, suspenseful

Tropes: found-family, unreliable-narrator

Setting: Minneapolis

Period: 21st-century

387 pages · Paperback · Harper

Content warnings: mental-illness

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