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Women's Diversity Book Group

"The Sentence: A Novel" -- by Louise Erdrich is Women's Diversity Book Group's selection to honor Native American Heritage Month. The Tuesday, Nov. 22, session, starting at 6:00 p.m. will be Zoom Only (see link at bottom) since that worked out well for our session in September on Julia Alvarez's "Afterlife" and our session in October on Meg Mason's "Sorrow and Bliss". (Our tech guru Jan Sprance of Women's Rights Information Center has indicated that our Zoom date should be okay and not conflict with the many other Zooms WRIC runs online.)
     About the author (from the book jacket): "Louise Erdrich, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, is the author of many novels as well as volumes of poetry, children's books, and a memoir of early motherhood. Her novel 'The Round House' won the National Book Award for Fiction. 'Love Medicine and LaRose' received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Erdrich lives in Minnesota with her daughters and is the owner of Birchbark Books, a small independent bookstore. Her most recent book, 'The Night Watchman', won the Pulitzer Prize. A ghost lives in her creaky old house."
     About the book (from the book jacket): "Louise Erdrich's latest novel, 'The Sentence', asks what we owe to the living, to the dead, to the reader, and to the book. A small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store's most annoying customer. Flora dies on All Souls' Day, but she simply won't leave the store. Tookie, who has landed a job selling books after years of incarceration that she survived by reading 'with murderous attention,' must solve the mystery of this haunting while at the same time trying to understand all that occurs in Minneapolis during a year of grief, astonishment, isolation, and furious reckoning.
     "'The Sentence' begins on All Souls' Day 2019 and ends on All Souls' Day 2020. Its mystery and proliferating ghost stories during this one year propel a narrative as rich, emotional, and profound an anything Louise Erdrich has written.
     "In her stunning and timely new novel, Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich creates a wickedly funny ghost story: a tale of passion, of a complex marriage, and of a woman's relentless errors."
      The book is 226 pages long. There are 27 copies owned by Bergen County Cooperative Library System libraries. Its copyright is 2021. The novel has been shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2022.
    
     (Note:  You might want to drop by our sponsor Women's Rights Information Center at 108 W, Palisade Ave. in Englewood anytime from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. from now through Nov. 11 to witness the painting of the Black Women's Mural Project on the east wall of W.R.I.C. by artist Tatyana Fazlalizadah. In addition, there will be an official mural unveiling there at 3:00 p.m. on Nov 14.) 
 
    FOLLOWING IS ZOOM LINK:
 

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https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88075488273?pwd=cHJmVVZUV1h5MTdsZ0hxNzNjaTRCZz09

 

Meeting ID:         880 7548 8273

Passcode:           BOOKS

For telephone participants, the phone number is 1 929 205 6099, passcode 072422

Date:
Tuesday, November 22, 2022 Show more dates
Time:
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Location:
Englewood - MacKay Room

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Englewood Library