Shadow Tag

Louise Erdrich, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, is the award-winning author of many novels as well as volumes of poetry, children's books, and a memoir of early motherhood. Erdrich lives in Minnesota with her daughters and is the owner of Birchbark Books, a small independent bookstore.

"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