Kakutani, Michiko (August 20, 1986). "Books of the Times". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved November 6, 2019. There are a variety of 'sentences' in The Sentence, but among the most significant is a nearly life-defining legal one meted out, which Tookie recounts at the outset. World Fantasy Convention (2010). "Award Winners and Nominees". Archived from the original on December 1, 2010 . Retrieved February 4, 2011. Dorris and Erdrich separated in 1995, and Dorris died by suicide in 1997. In his will, he omitted Erdrich and his adopted children Sava and Madeline. [19]

She also writes for younger audiences; she has a children's picture book Grandmother's Pigeon, and her children's book The Birchbark House, was a National Book Award finalist. [40] She continued the series with The Game of Silence, winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction; [41] and The Porcupine Year. Louise Erdrich, The Round House – National Book Award Fiction Winner, The National Book Foundation". Nationalbook.org. October 24, 2012 . Retrieved October 23, 2013. The love of books -- including a lot of name-dropping of titles -- is a nice touch, very convincingly woven in the story, and should certainly appeal to the avid reader. But Tookie recommends a ton of books in the novel, and Erdrich herself included a list in the appendix. So we have culled three of our favorite reads from that list of books and authors. Kaufman, Leslie (November 14, 2012). "Novel About Racial Injustice Wins National Book Award". The New York Times . Retrieved November 15, 2012.

Book Summary

Mercifully released after 10 years, Tookie, who's Native American, lands a job at Birchbark Books in Minneapolis — the very same independent bookstore that Louise Erdrich owns in real life. Erdrich herself makes sporadic appearances here, but she's by no means the most jarring presence in the bookstore, as Tookie ominously tells us: "In November 2019, death took one of my most annoying customers. But she did not disappear."

A study guide for Louise Erdrich's "The Bingo Palace". Gale, Cengage Learning. 2012. ISBN 978-1-4103-2049-0. Overall, The Sentence didn’t work for me – with an unrelatable main character and jumbled writing style. Thank you to NetGalley & Little Brown Books UK – Corsaire for the chance to read the ARC in exchange for a (very) honest review. a b Halliday, Lisa (Winter 2010). "Louise Erdrich, The Art of Fiction". The Paris Review. Winter 2010 (208). Strange, enchanting and funny: a work about motherhood, doom, regret and the magic – dark, benevolent and every shade in between – of words on paper’ New York TimesLouise Erdrich has made a career writing about the contemporary world in light of the history of indigenous people, how the past continues to impact the present. One might even say to haunt it. The hauntings in The Sentence continue that focus, but add a more immediate presence. I tried with The Sentence, I really did, but I got to this paragraph at 50% into the book and it just reiterated the fact that it was doing none of those things for me. I’m sad to say it was my first DNF of 2022. When I found out about the prize I was living on a farm in New Hampshire near the college I'd attended," Erdrich told an interviewer. "I was nearly broke and driving a car with bald tires. My mother knitted my sweaters, and all else I bought at thrift stores ... The recognition dazzled me. Later, I became friends with Studs Terkel and Kay Boyle, the judges, toward whom I carry a lifelong gratitude. This prize made an immense difference in my life." [27] Sentence , a word of multiple meanings - the sentence that the main character, an ex con named Tookie serves in jail, the sentences in this book and the so many other books mentioned here, (thankfully Erdrich gave us a list at the end), the sentences the characters sometimes impose on themselves . Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Native Writers Circle of the Americas". Hanksville.org . Retrieved October 23, 2013.

Salahub, Jill (November 9, 2017). "Native American Heritage Month: Louise Erdrich". Colorado State University . Retrieved June 6, 2019. Still, the better parts of the book are mostly those that aren't so (real-life-)event- specific and focused. First off I’d like to state that I’m a huge fan of Ms. Erdrich’s writing, “The Night Watchman” was a top 10 book for me from 2021. It won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.LE: I did. But then being in my attic all alone during the pandemic became scary. I used to try and get away from people when I wrote. But now I stay near family and friends. I don’t even close the door anymore when I’m up there.

a b Erdrich, Louise (2014). Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country. Harper Perennial. pp.52, 57. ISBN 978-0-06-230996-9. I decided to live for love again and take the chance of another lifetime’..... and this my friends was my favourite message from this very unique and enchanting book where sentence after sentence, word after word I became engrossed in Tookie’s story.In the fullness of time, I will take you there. For the present, I need to assist Budgie in beginning his journey. Can you show me where he reposed?” I would also have to say that reading this novel - which I largely enjoyed - I noted firstly that (to me like so many literary American novels) the world outside the US barely exists (other interestingly than in the large number of non-American authors mentioned) and secondly that the novel seemed to me very American - almost as if I was slightly excluded from what it took for granted. LH: T he Sentence takes on a lot of serious topics—being in prison; the pandemic; the George Floyd murder, which took place in Minneapolis; the injustices Native Americans suffer. But it’s also a ghost story with a lot of dark humor.