5/24/2023 0 Comments The sentence novel![]() ![]() It also includes a seven-page reading recommendation at the end-unusual in a novel. ![]() In its universe, books are “matters of life and death, and readers reach through unknowable realms to maintain some connection to the written word”. Woven into the narrative are reading lists from its bookseller protagonist. In a larger sense, it also reinforces the significance of books in our lives. Erdrich’s 18th novel, The Sentence, too centres on a family living through challenging times, amid the looming spectre of a ghost, and a virus. Past and present, love and obsession, white and indigenous often appear to be on a collision course. Erdich, whose Native American lineage is generative to her fiction and poetry, weaves her novels around love, violence, revenge and redemption. The unending struggle of families to survive in a changing world is the connective tissue that runs across Louise Erdrich’s novels. ![]()
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