Shadow Tag - Softcover

"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

"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

"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

"Read this if: You're looking for a well-written, well-told tale that is thought- and discussion- provoking."--Baltimore Sun

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

"A page-turner...a most compelling novel"--Dallas Morning News

"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

"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

After she discovers that her husband has been reading her diary, Irene America turns it into a manipulative farce, while secretly keeping a second diary that includes her true thoughts, through which the reader learns of Irene's shaky marriage, its affect on her children and her struggles with alcohol. (General fiction). Simultaneous.