{"product_id":"shadow-tag-a-novel-isbn-9780061536106","title":"Shadow Tag: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Gripping. . . a hushed and haunting tale.” — \u003cem\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA stunning tour-de-force from award-winning and \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling author Louise Erdrich. \u003cem\u003eShadow Tag\u003c\/em\u003e fearlessly explores the complex nature of love, the fluid boundaries of identity, and the anatomy of one family’s struggle for survival and redemption.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Irene America discovers that her artist husband, Gil, has been reading her diary, she begins a secret Blue Notebook, stashed securely in a safe-deposit box. There she records the truth about her life and marriage, while turning her Red Diary—hidden where Gil will find it—into a manipulative charade. As Irene and Gil fight to keep up appearances for their three children, their home becomes a place of increasing violence and secrecy. And Irene drifts into alcoholism, moving ever closer to the ultimate destruction of a relationship filled with shadowy need and strange ironies.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Here is the most telling fact: you wish to possess me. Here is another fact: I loved you and let you think you could.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Irene America discovers that her artist husband, Gil, has been reading her diary, she begins a secret Blue Notebook, stashed securely in a safe-deposit box. There she records the truth about her life and marriage, while turning her Red Diary—hidden where Gil will find it—into a manipulative charade. As Irene and Gil fight to keep up appearances for their three children, their home becomes a place of increasing violence and secrecy. And Irene drifts into alcoholism, moving ever closer to the ultimate destruction of a relationship filled with shadowy need and strange ironies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlternating between Irene’s twin journals and an unflinching third-person narrative, \u003cem\u003eShadow Tag\u003c\/em\u003e fearlessly explores the complex nature of love, the fluid boundaries of identity, and the anatomy of one family’s struggle for survival and redemption.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“Gripping…a hushed and haunting tale.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A fearless portrait of a marriage in free fall.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A domestic drama that builds an almost thriller-like momentum. . . . A novel as dark and tragic as it is difficult to put down” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSan Diego Union-Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Written with great reserves of power and wisdom…Shadow Tag wouldn’t be able to break a reader’s heart so thoroughly if Erdrich hadn’t invested it with so much of her own.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristian Science Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A page-turner…a most compelling novel” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDallas Morning News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“ A fierce novel…raw…alive…vividly present…it marks a breakthrough for the author.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eColumbus Dispatch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Erdrich offers a portrait that’s convincing…Shadow Tag is wonderfully, painfully readable and revealing.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMinneapolis Star Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookPage\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMiami Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Clear, urgent, deep as a swift river…\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eShadow Tag\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e accomplishes the literary miracle of making a reader ravenous to finish it, while stinging with regret at how soon it must end.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhiladelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRon Charles, Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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 \u003cem\u003eShadow Tag\u003c\/em\u003e.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBoston Sunday Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44887952851173,"sku":"NP9780061536106","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780061536106.jpg?v=1730227810","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/shadow-tag-a-novel-isbn-9780061536106","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}