Shadow Tag: A Novel (P.S.) - Tapa blanda

"Gripping...a hushed and haunting tale." -- USA Today "A portrait of an 'iconic' marriage on its way to dissolution...Erdrich's unbridled urgency yields startlingly original phrasing as well as flashes of blinding lucidity." -- New York Times Book Review " A fierce novel...raw...alive...vividly present...it marks a breakthrough for the author." -- Columbus Dispatch "Read this if: You're looking for a well-written, well-told tale that is thought- and discussion- provoking." -- Baltimore Sun "A page-turner...a most compelling novel" -- Dallas Morning News "SHADOW TAG is hard to put down...It builds to a spectacular ending with a twist I didn't see coming...Erdrich has taken a tragedy and turned it into art." -- Philadelphia Inquirer "A domestic drama that builds an almost thriller-like momentum...A novel as dark and tragic as it is difficult to put down" -- San Diego Union-Tribune Clear, urgent, deep as a swift river...accomplishes the literary miracle of making a reader ravenous to finish it, while stinging with regret at how soon it must end." -- San Francisco Chronicle "SHADOW TAG is compelling...a searing, personal examination of one family that's falling apart." -- Miami Herald "An exquisite, character-driven tale...its piercing insights into sex, family, and power are breathtaking...A masterfully concentrated and gripping novel of image and conquest, autonomy and love, inheritance and loss." -- Donna Seaman, Booklist "Muscular and fearless...It is [Erdrich's] superb telling of this story that makes it real, her stellar writing that brings powerful truth to invented worlds." -- BookPage "Erdrich offers a portrait that's convincing...Shadow Tag is wonderfully, painfully readable and revealing." -- Minneapolis Star Tribune "A fast-paced novel of exceptional artistic, intellectual, and psychological merit...Nowhere have love's complications been better illustrated than in the raw honesty of Shadow Tag." -- Boston Sunday Globe "A masterpiece...a captivating work of fiction...exquisite...tightly focused...arresting...This profoundly tragic novel captures that lament in some of Erdrich's most beautiful and urgent writing." -- Ron Charles, Washington Post "A brilliant cautionary tale...Reading it is like watching a wildfire whose flames are so mesmerizingly beautiful that it's almost easy to ignore the deadly mess left behind." -- Library Journal "Into this deeply personal novel about marriage, family and individual identity, Erdrich weaves broader questions about cause and effect in history...A small masterpiece of compelling, painfully moving fiction." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Shadow Tag is a stunning tour-de-force from Louise Erdrich, the bestselling author of The Plague of Doves and National Book Award-winner The Round House. When Irene America discovers that her artist husband, Gil, has been reading her diary, she begins a secret Blue Notebook, stashed securely in a safe-deposit box. There she records the truth about her life and marriage, while turning her Red Diary-hidden where Gil will find it-into a manipulative charade. As Irene and Gil fight to keep up appearances for their three children, their home becomes a place of increasing violence and secrecy. And Irene drifts into alcoholism, moving ever closer to the ultimate destruction of a relationship filled with shadowy need and strange ironies. Alternating between Irene's twin journals and an unflinching third-person narrative, Louise Erdrich's Shadow Tag fearlessly explores the complex nature of love, the fluid boundaries of identity, and the anatomy of one family's struggle for survival and redemption.