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Louise Erdrich, The Round House – National Book Award Fiction Winner, The National Book Foundation". Nationalbook.org. October 24, 2012 . Retrieved October 23, 2013. To my dear Goodreads friends that adored this book, I apologize for having to sit out this particular dance. It’s not that I loathed it; I just didn’t feel particularly moved by it. I didn’t want to get out of my chair and let loose. The rhythm threw me off quite often, and the character of the tune was just too angular for my taste. I prefer something a bit more lyrical.”

Tookie's struggles with her ghost are very much on her mind -- but so is a great deal else; The Sentence is a fairly busy book. It’s also Erdrich all the way down. In a paper published 30 years ago, the scholar Catherine Rainwater observed that Erdrich’s books are filled with “extreme cases of code conflict.” These include the rifts between industrial and ceremonial time; Christian theology and shamanic religion; the nuclear family and tribal kinship structures. “The Sentence” finds its protagonist squeezed into a space like that between the rough and soft sides of a Velcro closure. Tookie can’t square her husband’s affiliations — he’s a former tribal policeman — with her own experiences of state-inflicted violence; nor can she reconcile her sense of physical strength with her mental permeability. Pretty much out of the blue -- for her -- the sentence is then also commuted, after seven years, and Tookie is free again. I feel quite conflicted over The Sentence. Although I loved the first half of this novel I found the latter to be boring and somewhat disjointed. While I’m sure many will be able to love everything about this book I wish it hadn’t quite tried to juggle so many different themes and genres.” Tookie's prison experience had certainly helped form her -- specifically regarding books: "There, I had learned to read with a force that resembled insanity", and this great passion for books and reading certainly comes through in The Sentence.Susan Castillo "Postmodernism, Native American Literature, and the Real: The Silko-Erdrich Controversy" in Notes from the Periphery: Marginality in North American Literature and Culture New York: Peter Lang, 1995. 179–190. One of my main issues was the main character, Tookie. Although as a native American woman Tookie should have been a layered and interesting character, I just found that she felt very flat and one dimensional. Events just seemed to happen to her – whether that was going to prison, being released, getting married, starting a job in the bookshop, finding out she had a grandchild or discovering a ghost haunting her workplace. She seemed to keep the reader at arms length and didn’t let us properly into her head. I didn’t feel that I related to her or empathised with her in any way. Tookie manages in prison, after a fashion; books help a lot (even if at first she isn't allowed access to them); indeed, she finds: "the most important skill I'd gained in prison was how to read with murderous attention". LH: Tookie, who’s Ojibwe, has just been released from prison when she gets hired at the store. She was convicted of a very strange crime: body snatching. How did you come up with that?

We’re in the midst of the first wave of pandemic novels, with likely more to come as time goes on. How do you feel about this one?

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Finalist: The Plague of Doves, by Louise Erdrich (HarperCollins)". www.pulitzer.org . Retrieved November 6, 2019. Tookie certainly wants to shake her ghost, but, like a book she left behind, Flora seems pretty much unshakeably persistent. Tookie is strongly defined by identity -- her tribal one and that community she is part of, as well as then her professional one, as, book-obsessed , she comes to work in a bookstore -- and ultimately she comes to some terms with some other, even more fundamental aspects of her identity. In addition to fiction and poetry, Erdrich has published nonfiction. The Blue Jay's Dance (1995) is about her pregnancy and the birth of her third child. [42] Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country (2003) traces her travels in northern Minnesota and Ontario's lakes following the birth of her youngest daughter. [43] Influence and style [ edit ]

Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Native Writers Circle of the Americas". Hanksville.org . Retrieved October 23, 2013.Knoeller, Christian (2012). "Landscape and Language in Erdrich's "Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country" ". Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. 19 (4): 645–660. doi: 10.1093/isle/iss111. ISSN 1076-0962. JSTOR 44087160.



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