The Sentence resistance Water is the first medicine

Water is the first medicine

and parents' love

the fluid boundaries of identity

the community to which author Monty McGahey II belongs

” — Booklist (starred review)

The Sentence resistance Water is the first medicineA wickedly funny ghost story, a tale of passion, a complex marriage, and a woman's relentless error, Louise Erdrich's latest novel, 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 Soul's Day, but she simply won't leave the store. Tookie, who has landed a job selling