I have never thought of Louise Erdrich as a particularly humorous author, but the opening chapter of this novel, “Time In Time Out,” had me chuckling nonstop at the wry humor and irony for all thirty pages. She had ordered me to let her win and was taking me over-penmanship first.” But Flora had nothing to do with my unconscious. Most ghost narratives explain away supernatural entities as emotional projections. You have to do things by instinct because nobody knows how to vanquish a ghost. “When you are haunted, there are no rules. This review has been updated to reflect the final version of the book.Note: In the past ten years alone, author Louise Erdrich has been WINNER of the Pulitzer Prize, WINNER of the National Book Critics Circle Award, WINNER of the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, and WINNER of the National Book Award for Fiction,
It adds up to one of Erdrich’s most sprawling and illuminating works to date. More than a gripping ghost story, this offers profound insights into the effects of the global pandemic and the collateral damage of systemic racism. As the Covid-19 pandemic takes hold and the store pivots to mail orders, several of the characters join the protests against police brutality. Many of the story’s characters reckon with both personal and ancestral hauntings: Tookie with a childhood of neglect and her time in prison for unknowingly trafficking drugs her husband, Pollux, a former tribal police officer, confronts his past experiences of using force after the murder of George Floyd and Asema, a college student of Ojibwe and Sisseton Dakota descent, pieces together an ominous historical manuscript depicting the abduction of a 19th-century Ojibwe-Cree woman, which Flora’s daughter brought to the store. Despite being a dedicated ally of myriad Native causes, Flora fabricated a family lineage linking her to various Indigenous groups including Dakota and Ojibwe. In 2019 Minneapolis, Tookie, a formerly incarcerated woman, is visited at a bookstore by the ghost of Flora, a white woman with a problematic past.
Pulitzer winner Erdrich ( The Night Watchman) returns with a scintillating story about a motley group of Native American booksellers haunted by the spirit of a customer.
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