El fantasma de las palabras

Flora, a recalcitrant customer of an independent bookstore in Minneapolis, dies on All Souls' Day 2019, but her spirit, as much as the owners want to lose sight of her as soon as possible, refuses to leave her favorite store. It will be Tookie, a newcomer to the bookstore trade after years in prison - used to read relentlessly -, who must solve the mystery of the curse that seems to weigh on the premises, while observing, during a year of mourning, isolation and perplexity. , everything that happens around you. In The Ghost of Words, a mischievously funny homage to the long-standing Anglo-Saxon tradition of the ghost story, Louise Erdrich gives readers and booksellers a true declaration of love, while also taking a brave look at how we've dealt with to pain and fear, injustice and disease, in a very specific context: that of the effects of the pandemic and the collateral damage of systemic racism that led to the death of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matters movement.