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Shadow Tag

A Novel

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Shadow Tag

By: Louise Erdrich
Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
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About this listen

Shadow Tag is a stunning tour-de-force from Louise Erdrich, the bestselling author of The Plague of Doves and National Book Award-winner The Round House. When 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.

Alternating between Irene's twin journals and an unflinching third-person narrative, Louise Erdrich's Shadow Tag fearlessly explores the complex nature of love, the fluid boundaries of identity, and the anatomy of one family's struggle for survival and redemption.

 Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction World Literature Marriage Native American

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A sad depiction of family life breaking down but beautifully observed. One of her shorter works but nonetheless worthy.

I am an Erdrich addict

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Awful. Awful. Awful. Long winded. No real story line. Certainly no punch to it. The characters are irritating so hard to feel sympathy for. Completing it was tedious. The ending was as bland as the beginning.

Depressing & a waste of 5 hours.

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