Shadow Tag

<p><strong>Gripping. . . a hushed and haunting tale. -- <em>USA Today</em></strong></p><p><strong>A stunning tour-de-force from award-winning and <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author Louise Erdrich. <em>Shadow Tag</em> fearlessly explores the complex nature of love the fluid boundaries of identity and the anatomy of one family's struggle for survival and redemption.</strong></p><p>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.</p>