The Sentence

Did I want to remember 2020? No. Did Erdrich make me and keep me involved the whole time? Yes. Tookie was a hard character to get to like, and I'll admit I still wasn't super fond of her by the end of the novel, but she had grown, so....perhaps a personal preference. While not perfect, this book was a raw and original recount of a year so many of us would love to forget, and probably never will.

Where to even begin with this novel!! It's a story of haunted people, a haunted city, and a time of personal and collective reckoning.
Louise Erdrich is brilliant. Her writing is gorgeous, masterful, and poignant - I just want to love on and squeeze every single one of the characters in this novel. If I hadn't been in public while finishing this, I would've been a mess of tears. 
I haven't fully processed my thoughts and feelings about the novel yet, but dammit I love it so much. Erdrich is totally becoming one of my favorite authors!