5/24/2023 0 Comments The sentence louise erdrich review![]() Flora dies on All Souls Day, 2019, but she refuses to rest in peace. Her most annoying regular customer is a woman named Flora, who does a great many charitable deeds but also insists without any concrete evidence that she too has Native ancestry. Because of the wide and eclectic reading experience she gained in prison and has continued on the outside, she is often able to help customers find books they will love. Tookie herself is a complex character, scarred but with the potential for warmth and growth. ![]() ![]() To have Louise Erdrich write about herself as a minor character in her own novel felt too meta to me, and I didn’t enjoy the archness of it. This was the first thing that made it hard for me to connect to the story. Her time in prison turned Tookie into a voracious reader, so she applies for a job at Louise Erdrich’s independent store Birchbark Books. The judge hands her an extremely harsh sentence, but after several years, her lawyer manages to get it reduced and Tookie is released. ![]() ![]() She is convinced by a woman she loves to commit one crime, only to learn afterward that she has been set up to be guilty of an entirely different offense. The main character is Tookie, an Ojibwe woman with a criminal past. I read this book because a friend strongly recommended it on Facebook, and while I’m not sorry I did, I didn’t love it as much as she did nor as much as I hoped I would. ![]()
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