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On top of that, there is a framing device. Several chapters are narrated by "The Book", who functions as a separate character and expounds on the nature and meaning of stories. It's interesting that Louise Erdrich's shortlisted novel The Sentence, largely set in a small independent bookshop in Minneapolis, is also something of a love letter to reading.