![]() And here this powerful, endearing novel takes a swerve from its Orange Is the New Black-style opening. So when she is unexpectedly released in 2015 – her sentence commuted thanks to the tireless efforts of her tribe’s defence lawyer – it is perhaps unsurprising that she finds a job in a Minneapolis bookshop. Even when she is not permitted to have them, she calls up a library in her head: “everything from the Redwall books to Huck Finn to Lilith’s Brood”. Native Americans are the most oversentenced people currently imprisoned,” she says.īut while in prison, books are her salvation. ![]() “I was on the wrong side of the statistics. The judge who sends her away to a Minnesota jail is shocked by her crime Tookie, however, is not surprised by his harshness. ![]() Her friend Danae’s lover Budgie has died in the arms of his ex, Mara Danae persuades Tookie to steal a delivery truck in order to snatch Budgie’s body back. It’s 2005, and though Tookie is in her 30s, “I still clung to a teenager’s pursuits and mental habits” – drinking and drugging as though she is still an impulsive young adult. A s Louise Erdrich’s new novel begins, her heroine, Tookie, has been sentenced to 60 years in prison for an offence both horrible and ridiculous. ![]()
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