The Sentence

Louise Erdrich is the rarest kind of writer, as compassionate as she is sharp-sighted - Anne Tyler

A novel that reckons with ghosts - of both specific people but also the shadows resulting from America's violent, dark habits - Kirkus (starred review)

Scintillating . . . More than a gripping ghost story, The Sentence offers profound insights into the effects of the global pandemic and the collateral damage of systemic racism. It adds up to one of Erdrich's most . . . illuminating works to date - Publishers Weekly (Starred review)

Erdrich is one of the greatest living American writers - Guardian

The poet laureate of the contemporary Native American experience - Mail on Sunday

No one can break your heart and fill it with light all in the same book - sometimes in the same paragraph - quite like Louise Erdrich - Tampa Bay Times

'Strange, enchanting and funny: a work about motherhood, doom, regret and the magic - dark, benevolent and every shade in between - of words on paper' - The New York Times

'The story is, perhaps above all, about the peace available to us in books like this' - The New Yorker