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The Sentence

  • 400 pages · about 7 hours
  • First published 2021
  • 10 editions

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1 About this book

The Sentence is a 2021 novel by American author Louise Erdrich. The novel was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.

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  • Bookstores
  • Indigenous
  • Ex-convicts
  • Women
  • Ghosts
  • Booksellers and bookselling

2 About Louise Erdrich

Born 1954

Karen Louise Erdrich ( ER-drik; born June 7, 1954) is an Indigenous-American author of novels, short stories, poetry, and children's books featuring Native American characters and settings. She is an enrolled citizen of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians of North Dakota, a federally recognized Ojibwe people. Erdrich is widely acclaimed as one of the most significant writers of the second wave of the Native American Renaissance.

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