The sentence louise5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Louise says, “This is a dark time for bookstores and we probably won’t make it.” Then she offers Tookie a job. Her answer: “ Almanac of the Dead,” by Leslie Marmon Silko. Tookie, an Ojibwe woman with a checkered past, shows up for a job interview with Louise (no last name), who wears vintage oval eyeglasses, a beaded hairclip and “a general air of tolerance.” Instead of inquiring about her prospective employee’s credentials - or her stint in prison - Louise asks Tookie what she’s reading. The Pulitzer Prize winner even deputizes her on-page doppelgänger to hire her protagonist at an unnamed Minneapolis bookstore that sounds a lot like the one Erdrich owns in real life. But how often do you encounter the writer as a character in his or her own story? Rarely - probably because it’s a daring feat, one Louise Erdrich pulls off in “ The Sentence,” which just spent a week on the hardcover fiction list. METAVERSE When you’re reading a novel, you’ll find its author’s fingerprints on every page. ![]()
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