Shadow Tag: A Novel
Description
“Erdrich is a true original… [and] one of our major writers.” —Washington Post Book World
Shadow Tag, the brilliant new novel by Louise Erdrich, is a stunning tour-de-force from the National Book Critics Circle Award–winning and New York Times–bestselling author of Love Medicine and Pulitzer-Prize-finalist The Plague of Doves. In the vein of the novels of such contemporaries as Zoe Heller and Susan Minot, Shadow Tag is an intense and heart-wrenching story of a troubled marriage and a family in disarray—and a radical departure from Erdrich’s previous acclaimed work.
Praise for Shadow Tag: A Novel
“Gripping…a hushed and haunting tale.” — USA Today
“A fearless portrait of a marriage in free fall.” — Vogue
“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 searing, personal examination of one family that’s falling apart…SHADOW TAG is compelling, a bleak exploration of the ties of blood and marriage.” — Miami Herald
“Clear, urgent, deep as a swift river…Shadow Tag 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
“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
“The intensity of this exquisite, character-driven tale, its searing efficiency in encompassing the painful legacy of the Native American genocide, and 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.” — Booklist (starred review)
“Erdrich offers a portrait that’s convincing…Shadow Tag is wonderfully, painfully readable and revealing.” — Minneapolis Star Tribune
“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
“A page-turner…a most compelling novel” — Dallas Morning News
“ A fierce novel…raw…alive…vividly present…it marks a breakthrough for the author.” — Columbus Dispatch
“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
“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
“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 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)
