Ghost Stories and Haunted Histories, as Told by Louise Erdrich

November 15, 2021

At Oprah Daily, Pulitzer-Prize winning author Louise Erdrich discusses her new novel, The Sentence, a ghost story that follows Tookie, a bookstore employee and handles serious topics with nuance and dark humor. “Who doesn’t want to write a ghost story?” asks Erdich. And it’s not only about a haunted bookstore; it’s about how we are haunted by history and how that alters the present. And the humor is Tookie’s—she has a way with words.”

is a writer and illustrator. She is the author of two illustrated books, Last Night's Reading (Penguin Books, 2015) and Sanpaku (Archaia 2018).