The Sentence

When Flora, a persistently difficult customer, dies on All Souls' Day in 2019, she refuses to leave the small Minneapolis bookstore that has become her afterlife. Tookie, employed at the shop after finding redemption through reading during her years in prison, must unravel the mystery of Flora's haunting while the city around her descends into a year marked by grief, disbelief, and turbulent change. Set against the backdrop of 2020, this novel weaves a ghost story into the larger upheaval of Minneapolis and the lives transformed by both literature and loss.