ReviewsA domestic drama that builds an almost thriller-like momentum.A novel as dark and tragic as it is difficult to put down, 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., A domestic drama that builds an almost thriller-like momentum…A novel as dark and tragic as it is difficult to put down, Erdrich offers a portrait that's convincing.Shadow Tag is wonderfully, painfully readable and revealing., 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., Read this if: You're looking for a well-written, well-told tale that is thought- and discussion- provoking., Gripping a hushed and haunting tale that chillingly and convincingly reflects the upper-middle-class American experience, not only the Native American one., Read this if: You re looking for a well-written, well-told tale that is thought- and discussion- provoking., A domestic drama that builds an almost thriller-like momentum. . . . A novel as dark and tragic as it is difficult to put down, Gripping…a hushed and haunting tale that chillingly and convincingly reflects the upper-middle-class American experience, not only the Native American one., 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., 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., 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., 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., 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., 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., 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., 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., 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., 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., 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., Erdrich offers a portrait that's convincing…Shadow Tag is wonderfully, painfully readable and revealing., 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., 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.", 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.", 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., 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., 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., 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., 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., 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.
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Synopsis"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., "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., "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 Awardwinning and New York Timesbestselling 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., "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.