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The Sentence by Louise Erdrich6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() It was sent to me with a note: ‘This is the book I would take to a deserted island.’” LH: I love how the book opens: “While in prison, I received a dictionary. LH: Tookie steals a fruit van to transport the body and gets uncharacteristically all dressed up to impersonate an eco-undertaker. Tookie simply wanted to do what her bereft friend, Danae, wanted, which was to claim her ex-boyfriend Budgie’s dead body so his current girlfriend couldn’t have it. ![]() LE: I was thinking about how so often when we make big mistakes it’s just because one thing leads to another. ![]() She was convicted of a very strange crime: body snatching. LH: Tookie, who’s Ojibwe, has just been released from prison when she gets hired at the store. LE: Yes, that’s why I wanted to start the store! LH: Like your main character, Tookie, I suspect you, too, think of “book people” as in a class of their own. There’s a sense of community I wanted to share. They love to exchange often-heated opinions about what they’re reading. Louise Erdrich: I feel a kinship with book people. You actually own a bookstore-BirchBark Books-in the Twin Cities. Leigh Haber: You set this novel in an unnamed independent bookstore in Minneapolis. Oprah Daily's Books Director, Leigh Haber, interviewed the beloved author about her latest novel, which is set in a bookstore not unlike the one Erdrich herself owns.except for the ghosts, of course. ![]()
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