![]() ![]() Tookie didn’t know this, but she still faces 60 years in prison if caught. ![]() Tookie’s crush tricked her: she didn’t want Tookie to steal a body out of sheer sentimentality, but to smuggle drugs across state lines. The scene is attractively twisted, like an Edward Gorey heist film, but it carries weight. She wraps a dead man in a tarp, ties his jaw with a silk handkerchief, and puts him in a refrigerator truck to take him away from his lover, all at the behest of her own crush. ![]() But what strikes me the most The sentencehere, as we prepare to enter the third year of the Covid-19 pandemic, surrounded by losses, is how much time it devotes to asking what we owe the dead and whether we have failed to deliver.įor our protagonist Tookie, desecration of a body is her original sin. It’s also about a lot of other things: the pandemic and life as a Native American and the prison state and maybe especially books. Louise Erdrichs The sentenceThe Vox Book Club‘s Choice for February is a novel about how we treat our dead. The Vox Book Club links to support local and independent booksellers. ![]()
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