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Listen in when Cambridge Public Library hosts ‘The Sentence’ author Louise Erdrich
The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer will speak with author Joan Naviyuk Kane at the virtual event.
The Cambridge Public Library is hosting a conversation in early April between Pulitzer Prize-winning author Louise Erdrich and writer Joan Naviyuk Kane.
Erdrich’s most recent novel, “The Sentence,” published in 2021, captures the happenings inside a small independent bookstore in Minneapolis between November 2019 and November 2020, where a Native American woman has gotten a job after being incarcerated and is reading everything she can. The shop becomes haunted by its most annoying customer, who dies on All Souls’ Day.
Erdrich, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, owns Birchbark Books in Minneapolis. She won the National Book Award for Fiction for her 2012 novel, “The Round House,” while her novels “Love Medicine” (1984) and “LaRose” (2016) were awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Her novel published in 2020, “The Night Watchman,” won the Pulitzer Prize.
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She will be in conversation with Kane, who is Inupiaq and the author of “The Cormorant Hunter’s Wife,” “Hyperboreal,” and “Milk Black Carbon.” She also teaches poetry and creative nonfiction in the Department of English at Harvard University; lectures at the Tufts Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora; and teaches creative writing at the Institute of American Indian Arts.
The online program, which requires registration, will take place Thursday, April 7 at 6 p.m.
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