Epigraph to "The Sentence"

In an October post, I wrote of three epigraphs I particularly like--two from novels, one from a short story collection.

Here is another, that I was recently taken by; it is from the noted novelist Louise Erdrich's absorbing work, The Sentence. The novel, published by Harper in November, takes place largely in 2019 and 2020, in Minneapolis. 

Earlier this year, Ms. Erdrich's 2020 novel, The Night Watchman, was awarded the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. 

The epigraph to The Sentence is from poet/writer Sun Yung Shin's 2016 book, Unbearable Splendor.

Sun Yung Shin, like Louise Erdrich, lives in Minneapolis.