![]() They were also the parents of six children: three adopted, three biological. Together they helped put Native American literature on the map. Dorris, who was also part Native American, was her mentor and then her literary partner. During the 1980s Erdrich and writer Michael Dorris were a literary golden couple. Though Erdrich says the book is not based on her own life, there are echoes of her life in it. And there were times where I really dreaded going up to keep going on it, but it was as though I couldn't stop." "I found myself writing about this without really wanting to," Erdrich says. ![]() Gil's volatile temper keeps the children in a constant state of fearful watchfulness, wondering if and when the family will fall apart.Īs Louise Erdrich tells it, Shadow Tag is a book she had to write. Gil is a Native American artist, famous for his portraits of his wife. Irene is a scholar who can't seem to finish her thesis. Irene America and her husband, Gil, have three children, and their lives are tied together domestically and professionally. But in this novel their ancestry is mostly a backdrop for a shattering family drama that leaves no one unscathed. ![]() ![]() As is often the case in Erdrich's books, her main characters are Native American. In her new novel, Shadow Tag, writer Louise Erdrich turns a diary into a deadly device for bringing about the final collapse of a marriage. Louise Erdrich is the author of 13 novels and the owner of Birchbark Books, an independent bookstore in Minnesota. ![]()
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