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Author Louise Erdrich's 'The Sentence' follows a haunting during a momentous year

Louise Erdrich writes about a haunting at a Native American bookstore in Minneapolis in 2020.
"The Sentence" by Louise Erdrich. (Courtesy)

Here & Now‘s Robin Young speaks with Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich about her new novel “The Sentence.” The book is about a haunting at a Native American bookstore in Minneapolis in 2020.

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