![]() ![]() Although in my thirties, I still clung to a teenager's physical pursuits and mental habits. I was at a perilous age when I committed my crime. Without a doubt, had the dictionary not arrived, this light word that lay so heavily upon me would have crushed me, or what was left of me after the strangeness of what I'd done. So the word with its yawning c, belligerent little e's, with its hissing sibilants and double n's, this repetitive bummer of a word made of slyly stabbing letters that surrounded an isolate human t, this word was in my thoughts every moment of every day. The first word I looked up was the word 'sentence.' I had received an impossible sentence of sixty years from the lips of a judge who believed in an after- life. ![]() But as she had known, this one proved of endless use. Other books were to arrive from my teacher. This is the book I would take to a deserted island. The novel's narrative present spans the year between November 2019 to November 2020. The novel is set in Minneapolis, Minnesota. While in prison, I received a dictionary. Louise Erdrich's novel The Sentence is written from both the first and third person points of view, and employs both the past and present tenses. ![]()
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