Fiction

This is a profound and magical novel that has you laughing one minute and in tears the next, sometimes while you're still on the same page. Ms. Erdrich says she first came up with the title in 2014. "I gathered extraordinary sentences. healing sentences, sentences that were so beautiful that they brought people solace and comfort, also sentences for incarcerated people."

The story is about the life-transforming effect of literature and is filled with other book titles. I was trying to keep them all written down and now I find there's an appendix at the end which lists them all. The book also really epitomizes the trauma and craziness of 2020. Someday I will read this book again and say -this is what we went through.

"Books contain everything worth knowing except what ultimately matters."