The Sentence

An indie bookstore, the ghost of an annoying customer, and 2020 in Minneapolis.

This was so much more than I expected. Set in Minneapolis in 2019 and 2020 it details—a haunting of an individual and a bookstore, the specter of the COVID-19 Pandemic, police violence, protests, and more. We follow Tookie, an ex-convict who has settled into a nice life married to a local elder and working at Birchbark Books, but early in the story their most annoying customer dies—and she won’t stop coming into the store. This was complex, thought-provoking, and quite funny.