Womxn of Color Intersectional Feminist Book Club: "The Sentence."

The burdens of history and especially identity, appropriation, exploitation, violence done to human beings in the name of justice, and more, prove to be volatile issues in our world today, when and where this compelling new work by Louise Erdrich takes place.

Set in contemporary Minneapolis and revolving around a small independent bookstore there, THE SENTENCE follows a turbulent year in the life of a strong though vulnerable Ojibwe woman named Tookie. When she emerges from prison after serving part of an outrageously long sentence, Tookie, who when incarcerated "learned to read with murderous attention," naturally gravitates to working at a bookstore. She joins a dedicated community of artists and book lovers and makes a new life for herself.

 But when Flora, the store's most persistent customer, suddenly dies, her ghost refuses to leave. Flora returns on All Soul's Day to haunt the bookstore and in particular, Tookie. Why? The…