Available from Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Lightning Song
“Portnoy’s Complaint set on a llama farm in Mississippi.” —Self magazine
When twelve-year-old Leroy Dearman’s Uncle Harris arrives, life on the family llama farm takes on an entirely different flavor. Equilibrium tilts, lightning strikes, and Leroy finds himself kissing his innocence good-bye.
Fiction • Paperback edition: ISBN 978-1-56512-220-8
The Sharpshooter Blues
“This is not just a good book, this is a marvelous book.” —Voice Literary Supplement
One fateful day in the Delta town of Arrow Catcher, an orphaned teen, known as The Sharpshooter, shows off his fancy moves at the William Tell grocery, but when Hydro Raney, the sweet, simple hero of the book, tries his hand, the results are cataclysmic.
Fiction • Paperback edition: 978-1-56512-182-9
Music of the Swamp
“Lordy, Lordy, can Lewis Nordan write!”—Los Angeles Times Book Review
The summers Sugar Mecklin turns ten, eleven, and twelve are a time “in which magic might prove once and for all to be true.” It’s a time when he discovers singing mice in his mattress, hears Elvis on the Philco, and dreams of mermaids in the swamp.
Fiction • Paperback edition: ISBN 978-1-61620-257-6
“Mr. Nordaris stories are splendid.” —The New York Times Book Review
Fifteen stories for which the incomparable Lewis Nordan has plundered his own prodigiously rich stores of imagination and memory to give birth to his magnificent—and ongoing—creation, the mythical town of Arrow Catcher, Mississippi.
Stories • Paperback edition: 978-1-61620-258-3
Boy with Loaded Gun
“The Huck Finn-like tale of an irresistible oddball turns into a heartrending account… A must for fans of Nordan’s quirky fiction.” —Entertainment Weekly
“The best thing Nordan’s ever written. It’s also the most honest, painful, unexpected and powerful sharing of a life.” —The Jackson (MS) Clarion-Ledger
“Tracking a wild youth to a redeemed adulthood via a hilarious, tragic path, Boy with Loaded Gun is a spiritual autobiography about a determined kid forging an identity in a confusing world … Your own life may seem more incredible after you read it, your vision of what it means to be alive never quite the same.”—Men’s Journal
Memoir • Paperback edition: ISBN 978-1-61620-259-0