Louise
Erdrich’s most recent novel continues the trend of her recent work of venturing into different kinds of
novels. In recent years, she has published dystopian fiction and
fiction hueing closely to her family’s personal history.
The Sentence is set in Erdrich’s
Minneapolis-based bookstore, Birchbark Books, during the pandemic and George
Floyd protests, and, though clearly fiction, it has the feel of a first-person
dispatch from our recent tumultuous times.
It is also a ghost story, and
it brings together Erdrich’s trademark insightful characterization with a
willingness to consider the world as a mysterious place that is sometimes
dangerous, sometimes humorous, and always made better by the care of
individuals for one another.
In this stunning and timely novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich creates a wickedly funny ghost story, a tale of passion, of a complex marriage and of a woman's relentless errors.
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 Souls' Day, but…
Though this book came
out a little while ago, I first listened to it this year. Little Eyes is a near-future novel in which the latest
technological fad are Kentukis (the
novel’s original title in Spanish), networked devices that allow strangers to
either be “keepers” or “dwellers” of these household objects (picture what
you’d get if you combined Chatroulette, Furbies, and Roombas).
The popularity of
this seemingly innocuous toy soon has a massive social impact throughout the
globe, and the novel traces a range of unanticipated uses and consequences of
this merger of public and private life.
The plausibility of this future makes
the story all the more compelling
A visionary novel about our interconnected world, about the collision of horror and humanity, from the Man Booker-shortlisted master of the spine-tingling tale
A Guardian & Observer Best Fiction Book of 2020 * A Sunday Times Best Science Fiction Book of the Year * The Times Best Science Fiction Books of the Year * NPR Best Books of the Year
World Literature Today's 75 Notable Translations of 2020 * Ebook Travel Guides Best 5 Books of 2020 * A New York Times Notable Book of 2020
They're not pets. Not ghosts or robots. These are kentukis, and they are in…
I
knew going in that Trust was a
co-winner of the 2023 Pulitzer, so I was going to give it a chance. But for a
long time, I found myself asking, “Why did this win the Pulitzer?”
However, six
and a half hours in (that’s a long time!), it all started to make sense, and I
realized that this really is a tour de force kind of book (what a compelling
ending!). But fair warning, you really have to stick with it.
I hate to say
much more than that because almost any description will involve spoilers due to
the novel’s inventively experimental form.
Longlisted for the Booker Prize The Sunday Times Bestseller
Trust is a sweeping, unpredictable novel about power, wealth and truth, set against the backdrop of turbulent 1920s New York. Perfect for fans of Succession.
Can one person change the course of history?
A Wall Street tycoon takes a young woman as his wife. Together they rise to the top in an age of excess and speculation. But now a novelist is threatening to reveal the secrets behind their marriage, and this wealthy man's story - of greed, love and betrayal - is about to slip from his grasp.
The Cord, a Midwest Book Award finalist, is a science fiction novel that follows life along both ends of a space elevator that connects an orbiting space station to an equatorial island. Envisioned as a secure and enjoyable place to work and visit, the cord is a valuable resource—one that people are willing to fight for to gain control. Travel along with a robot repairman who uncovers a disturbing conspiracy, a teenage girl who is caught up in a revolution, and a tour guide in space trying to re-establish a lost connection with his brother on Earth. The Cord is written in a reverse narrative format that emphasizes the fragile but essential ties across generations.
