Shortly thereafter, Flora's ghost starts haunting the bookstore. Then, in November 2019, Tookie's least favorite customer, Flora, dies. She believes that her job and her marriage are signs of her reformed life. Over the course of the next four years, Tookie feels content. Around the same time, she accepts Pollux's marriage proposal. Shortly after her release, Tookie finds a job at a small Minneapolis bookstore. After 10 miserable years behind bars, Tookie learns that her sentence has been commuted. The first word she looks up is the word "sentence." In this definition she finds new comfort and clarity regarding her circumstances. She is pleased, therefore, when her former teacher, Jackie, starts sending her books. She is then sentenced to 60 years in prison.ĭuring her incarceration, Tookie searches for answers. Tookie later learns that because Budgie's body was concealing drugs, she is also being tried for smuggling illegal drugs. Only a few hours later, Tookie's cop friend, Pollux, arrests her for stealing a body and committing grand larceny. She steals a refrigerated truck from her former employer, and transports the body across state lines. Because Tookie thinks she is in love with Danae, and hopes that the payment will help her restart her life, she agrees. She offers to pay Tookie a large sum of money if she transports Budgie's body from their friend Mara's house back to Danae's. One day when Tookie's crush, Danae, learns that her lover, Budgie, is dead, Danae asks for Tookie's help. Though she is not a young adult, she often behaves like one. When Tookie is in her thirties, she is involved with a network of untrustworthy people. The following summary relies upon the present tense and adheres to a linear structure.
The novel's narrative present spans the year between November 2019 to November 2020. The novel is set in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Louise Erdrich's novel The Sentence is written from both the first and third person points of view, and employs both the past and present tenses.
The following version of this book was used to create the guide: Erdrich, Louise.
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