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Praise for The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman

The Booklist Reader, 1 of 150 Memoirs and Biographies of Women, by Women

Finalist for the Caroline Bancroft History Prize

Named a Best of the Best from American University Presses by the American Library Association

A Southwest Book of the Year

Named a Book of the Year by over a dozen regional publications including The Kansas City Star, Anchorage Daily News, and Idaho Statesman

Named a Book of the Year by PopMatters

A One Book Yuma community read selection for Yuma, Arizona

“Mifflin engagingly describes Oatman’s ordeal and theorizes about its impact on Oatman herself as well as on popular imagination . . . Her book adds nuance to Oatman’s story and also humanizes the Mohave who adopted her. Recommended for general readers as well as students and scholars.”

—Library Journal

“The Blue Tattoo is well-researched history that reads like unbelievable fiction, telling the story of Olive Oatman.”

—Bust

“An easy, flowing read, one you won’t be able to put down.”

—JON STRAUB, The Christian Science Monitor

“An important and engrossing book, which reveals as much about the appetites and formulas of emerging mass culture as it does about tribal cultures in nineteenth-century America.”

—CHRISTINE BOLD, The Times Literary Supplement

“Margot Mifflin has written a winner . . . The Blue Tattoo offers quite intense drama along with thorough scholarship.”

—ELMORE LEONARD