Book Meet-Up | The Sentence
Di., 29. Okt.
|Academy Bar
For Spooky Season, solve this haunting mystery set in an small independent bookshop
Time & Location
29. Okt. 2024, 19:00 – 22:00
Academy Bar, Franz-Josef-Straße 4, 5020 Salzburg, Austria
About the event
Note: Our discussions are held in English. If you're interested in setting up a German-language Book Club, please let us know: hello@quekusa.at
This month's book is The Sentence by Louise Erdrich.
From GoodReads: "The Sentence asks what we owe to the living, 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…