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Book Club | ATL Reads Virtual Book Club

Celebrate Native American Heritage Month and discuss "The Sentence" by Louise Erdrich. ATL Reads Book Club welcomes all who enjoy reading a variety of genres.

Read the book and chat with us!

Open to all. 

In this New York Times bestselling novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich creates a wickedly funny ghost story, a tale of passion, of a complex marriage, and of a woman's relentless errors.

Louise Erdrich's novel, 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 proliferating ghost stories during this one year propel a narrative as rich, emotional, and profound as anything Louise Erdrich has written. 

Invite friends from all over the world to join, you do not need to be a library cardholder.

Registration is required for online access. Registration closes at the start of the program. Please contact the Customer Contact Center if in need of assistance accessing the program at 770-978-5154.

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