![]() ![]() Tookie, released from prison in her thirties, “still parties, drinking and drugging like I seventeen,” and she admits that she does not yet know who she is. ![]() This is the book I would take to a deserted island,” a book she had received from a former teacher. Tookie, the narrator, wastes no time introducing herself, explaining in the opening sentence that “While in prison, I received a dictionary. I have never thought of Louise Erdrich as a particularly humorous author, but the opening chapter of this novel, “Time In Time Out,” had me chuckling nonstop at the wry humor and irony for all thirty pages. She had ordered me to let her win and was taking me over-penmanship first.” But Flora had nothing to do with my unconscious. Most ghost narratives explain away supernatural entities as emotional projections. You have to do things by instinct because nobody knows how to vanquish a ghost. ![]() “When you are haunted, there are no rules. ![]() Note: In the past ten years alone, author Louise Erdrich has been WINNER of the Pulitzer Prize, WINNER of the National Book Critics Circle Award, WINNER of the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, and WINNER of the National Book Award for Fiction, ![]()
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