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Born and raised in the Mississippi Delta, novelist Lewis Nordan was fifteen years old the summer two white men from the next town were tried for the murder of a black boy who wolf-whistled at a white woman. The boy's name was Emmett Till and the year his murderers were tried (and acquitted) was 1955. More
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Kirkus Reviews |
Nordan displays some of Faulkner's lyricism and Flannery O'Connor's surreal humor but emerges as a unique and powerful Southern storyteller in his own right. | 3 |
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Library Journal |
By showing Till's murder through the scrim of magic realism, Nordan...has allowed his benighted characters a glimpse of transcendence. The result is a high-wire act...that can only enhance Nordan's reputation. | 4 |
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Free Times |
An unforgettable story by a writer of great talent. | 4 |
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