Shadow Tag

"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)