4.75 stars rounded up for Goodreads.

I thoroughly enjoyed this story on so many levels. Previously having DNFd the only Erdrich I've attempted to read, I felt like an intellectual inferior and was anxious to try again with a story that did not include 60 characters in the first 30 pages.

Cue The Sentence, the title alone which contains a multitude of meanings throughout the book. And provides the first of many layers of brilliance Erdrich puts forth.

It's the early days of our current pandemic, in Minnesota during George Floyd's murder, and chronicles the experience of a woman who kind of loses it when she believes she's being haunted and the ghost is trying to take over her body.

Yet this is one of the more amusing and contemplatively funny and wholeheartedly humanistic books I have read. Hanging out with Tookie was like kicking it with that friend who's not afraid to tell you what's up.

But her honestly, her humanity, her vulnerability. They shine a spectacular light on the diminishing world surrounding her.

Erdrich wrote herself into the book not as the protagonist but as a side character, which just titilated me beyond belief. Also, the way she wrote about books and writing.

All in all I just really enjoyed this story.