📚BOOK REVIEW📚 Just read this - that is all you need to know. . I requested "The Sentence" because I read the words "ghost" and "bookshop" and that was enough for me. I had never heard the author's name until I got the book at home and I was not aware of the buzz around this story so I was not at all prepared for the literary masterpiece I was about to read. This book is written by an Indigenous author and follows a cast of likewise Indigenous characters, the most important of which is Tookie, a middle-aged former convict who is one of the booksellers at Birchbark Books, an independent bookshop that focus on Indigenous works and art. That is not where the story starts though. We are first introduced to Tookie about a decade before the haunting when she is a young woman, toeing or sometimes even on the wrong side of the law. After unknowingly moving drugs across state lines and being forced to give a confession under duress, she is given a disproportionally long sentence and ends up in prison. What follows is a description of the abuse she is subjected to during her incarceration on a personal and systematic level. Tookie is released early thanks to the people outside that never gave up on her but even then, she has lost ten years of her life and acquired a lot of trauma. Still, she tries to deal with it by building a life, getting a job at a bookshop, marrying and becoming part of a loving, supportive Indigenous community. That peaceful existence is often cracked by the resurface of Tookie's trauma and then by the events of 2020, both the pandemic and the murder of George Floyd and the subsequent protests and police brutality. (Full review on my @goodreads and website) . Thank you so much to @littlebrownbookgroup_uk and Corsair for this proof . #lucsbooks #bookhaul #bookreview #januaryreleases #pastreads #thesentence #louiseerdrich #indegenous #indigenouspeople #pandemic #ghosts #trauma #fiction #gifted #bookproofs #littlebrownbooks #corsair #bookworm #romance #community #currentlyreading #currentmood #bookcovers #greatbooks #indegenousauthors #diversereads #diversity #bookreccomendations #fivestar #fivestarreview https://www.instagram.com/p/CZXVIF-rEeV/?utm_medium=tumblr