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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