This dazzlingly inventive novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Night Watchman combines a deliciously witty ghost story set in a Minneapolis bookshop – haunted by its most annoying customer – with a powerful meditation on the reality of the global pandemic and the collateral damage of systemic racism.

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.