If you stack up all the odd plot points and weird scenarios that you’d probably like to experiment with to make your novel interesting — or to be qualified as what reviewers freely call ‘fresh’ these days, then you’ll find that Louise Erdrich has employed all of them in her latest The Sentence. Many were flummoxed when the award went …
“The Sentence,” by Louise Erdrich When she isn’t writing bestselling novels that explore Native American life, Louise Erdrich runs a bookstore in Minneapolis that sells Native literature and art. Tookie credits her somewhat head-spinning transformation to “the most important skill I’d gained in prison… how to read with murderous attention” — a talent that also lands her a job at …
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