Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

I finished reading "The Sentence" by Louise Erdrich last night. I was thrilled with it. It seems quite a step up from even her previous novel, "The Night Watchman, which won the Pulizer Prize. There is so much humor and lightness in this tale, which encorporates serious issues with emotional psychology and current events in a way that makes the story whole and integrated. I loved that the pandemic is part of it, and the response to George Floyd's death and what language can do at it's most powerful. I really cared for these characters, and how like REAL Indigenious people they were. They were searching for who they were, how they fit in or didn't to white culture, and their ancient traumas visited upon each generation, haunting them and causing so much suffering. The book is about love, in the end, but along the way lessons are learned and a lot of joy comes to life, especially in the marriage of Tookie and Pollux. It is a truly full hearted story, and also a antheum to those of us who love books and bookstores. It's like Louise loosened up and let 'er rip. Read it!