![]() ![]() She’s sentenced to 60 years in prison but is released after seven years thanks to the diligent work of her reservation’s lawyer.Īfter she’s set free from prison, Tookie finds a job at author Louise Erdrich’s bookstore, Birchbark Books. Tookie is arrested and incarcerated for body stealing, drug transport, and accepting money for doing so. However, Tookie fails to realize that the corpse is taped with drugs. Tookie, a Native American woman in Minnesota, steals the body of her crush’s former lover. This guides uses the 2021 Kindle edition of The Sentence, published by Harper.Ĭontent Warning: The book and this guide contain references to illicit drug use and overdose, human trafficking, inappropriate handling of corpses, police brutality, and institutionalized racism. A recipient of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, Erdrich is the author of 28 books. ![]() Louise Erdrich, the owner of Birchbark Books in Minneapolis, Minnesota, is a member of the Native American tribe known as the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians. Erdrich narrates primarily through the first-person point-of-view of the protagonist, Tookie, an Ojibwe (or Chippewa) woman whose character development is informed by a cast of complex secondary characters, including the ghost of a white woman appropriating Native American culture. Infused with autobiographical allusions to author Erdrich’s own life, the novel explores spirituality, bookstores, stories, and current events as symbolic of the human experience. ![]()
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