The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Perhaps it is a foreshadowing of things to come that my first book of the year was so wonderful! I have read several of Erdrich's novels over the years and have liked some more than others. This one was outstanding. It is the story of Tookie whose life has been difficult but who finds herself when this story begins in a place from which she can hold things together. There are lots of threads to this story, including the Covid pandemic, the murder of George Floyd, identity, the power of literature, and what it means to love.
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Perhaps it is a foreshadowing of things to come that my first book of the year was so wonderful! I have read several of Erdrich's novels over the years and have liked some more than others. This one was outstanding. It is the story of Tookie whose life has been difficult but who finds herself when this story begins in a place from which she can hold things together. There are lots of threads to this story, including the Covid pandemic, the murder of George Floyd, identity, the power of literature, and what it means to love.
"For a while in my life I'd lived with the certainty that I would be held in love, and now I was sleeping in a parking lot.""Walking is a feat of controlled falling. Like life, I guess."
At the end of the novel is a long list of books grouped under varios headings and related to the story in some way. (I love novels with bibliographies!) These are books from that list that I am considering adding to my TBR:
- poetry by Joy Harjo--not sure yet which book ("indigenous poetry")
- The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald ("short perfect novels")
- The Vixen by Francine Prose ("Books for banned love")
- The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro ("Sublime books")
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