#1738: Louise Erdrich's "The Sentence" | The Book Show

November 09, 2021 00:30:00
#1738: Louise Erdrich's "The Sentence" | The Book Show
The Book Show
#1738: Louise Erdrich's "The Sentence" | The Book Show

Nov 09 2021 | 00:30:00

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Show Notes

Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich’s new book is a ghost story, a tale of passion, of a complex marriage, and of a woman’s relentless errors. “The Sentence” asks what we owe to the living, the dead, to the reader and to the book.

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