![]() ![]() ![]() As the Covid-19 pandemic takes hold and the store pivots to mail orders, several of the characters join the protests against police brutality. Many of the story’s characters reckon with both personal and ancestral hauntings: Tookie with a childhood of neglect and her time in prison for unknowingly trafficking drugs her husband, Pollux, a former tribal police officer, confronts his past experiences of using force after the murder of George Floyd and Asema, a college student of Ojibwe and Sisseton Dakota descent, pieces together an ominous historical manuscript depicting the abduction of a 19th-century Ojibwe-Cree woman, which Flora’s daughter brought to the store. Despite being a dedicated ally of myriad Native causes, Flora fabricated a family lineage linking her to various Indigenous groups including Dakota and Ojibwe. In 2019 Minneapolis, Tookie, a formerly incarcerated woman, is visited at a bookstore by the ghost of Flora, a white woman with a problematic past. Pulitzer winner Erdrich ( The Night Watchman) returns with a scintillating story about a motley group of Native American booksellers haunted by the spirit of a customer. ![]()
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