Louise Erdich’s book “The Sentence” is the book of the month to read at the Scandinavia Public Library.

A group discussion of it will be held on Tuesday, Nov. 29, at 4 p.m. at the library.

Copies of “The Sentence” are available to check out at the Scandinavia Public Library, or you may place a hold at https://infosoup.info

Book Description

“In this New York Times bestselling novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich creates a wickedly funny ghost story, a tale of passion, of a complex marriage, and of a woman’s relentless errors.

“‘The Sentence’ asks what we owe to the living, the dead, to the reader, and to the book.

“A small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store’s most annoying customer. Flora dies on All Souls’ Day, but she simply won’t leave the store. Tookie, who has landed a job selling books after years of incarceration that she survived by reading “with murderous attention,” must solve the mystery of this haunting while at the same time trying to understand all that occurs in Minneapolis during a year of grief, astonishment, isolation, and furious reckoning.

“The Sentence begins on All Souls’ Day 2019 and ends on All Souls’ Day 2020. Its mystery and proliferating ghost stories during this one year propel a narrative as rich, emotional, and profound as anything Louise Erdrich has written.”

Book Group normally takes place at the Scandinavia Public Library at 4 p.m. on the fourth Tuesday of the month. (The November 2022 meeting is an exception.) We do not meet in December. Be sure to watch Facebook or the library’s website for the most recent updates!

We read books across most genres as well as some non-fiction. Anyone is welcome to attend who has read or is interested in the current month’s book and is willing to participate in a civil manner. Members are welcome to attend one meeting or all of them as their interests and schedules permit.