On reverberating right to the end: but I won’t say any more about that. The Sentence of the title has multiple meanings, which go Should also flag up its crafts-womanship and poetic skill. I’ve mentioned the novel’s plotting and characters, but I Let’s say instead thatĪs you can see, it’s all in the tone Tookie’s deadpan But here comes the annoying part: she was a stalker – of all Our speciality is Native books, of course, Here she is talking about Flora, the customer who has died įlora’s stubborn refusal to vanish began to irk me.Īlthough it figured. Identity means she experiences life differently, and it feels like a great She is alert to signs and tokens which mean nothing to me her cultural For her, the veil between the mundane and the supernatural is thin But what fascinated me mostĪbout the novel was the insider view it gave me of Tookie’s Potawatomi Marries her and all these are expertly drawn. There is the ever-lovable Pollux, the man who arrested her and eventually Strange behaviour on Tookie’s part there are bookstore friends and colleagues There’s a ghost, Flora, with a complex plot which provides the pretext for increasingly Settles down to a steadier kind of story, when she comes out of prison in 2015. Various drugs and an unrequited passion for a horribly manipulative woman. Ten year stint in prison for stealing a corpse whilst under the influence of Of many books which Tookie recommends to the reader.) Chapter one charts her hilarious route to a Tokarczuk’s magnificent Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead. She reminds me a little of the cranky heroine/narrator of Olga Thoroughly off the rails (in her early life, at least), and convinced she is Tookie is a one off tough, funny, sarcastic, prickly, Store, and real Minneapolis comes crashing into the narrative when coronavirus The first person narrator, Tookie, ends up working at the
Similar Minneapolis bookstore, which specialises in books by and about Elements of the novelĪre clearly rooted in this biography, since most of the action takes place in a Sentence, which was on this year’s Women’s Prize shortlist, has sentĮrdrich is a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa,Īnd owns Birchbark Books, a small independent bookstore. For more information, see Jane's website.Įrdrich is the Pulitzer-prize winning author of no less thanġ7 novels, and I’m ashamed that I haven’t read one of them till now. Her latest novel, Body Tourists, is now available in paperback, and reviewed on this blog (see below). Jane also writes short stories, radio drama and adaptations, and has taught writing to a wide range of students. Other works include Mr Wroe's Virgins (which she dramatised as a BBC drama series), and Promised Lands (Writers' Guild Best Fiction Award). Jane Rogers has written ten novels, including The Testament of Jessie Lamb, Man-Booker longlisted and winner of the Arthur C Clarke Award 2012.
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