Boy With Loaded Gun: A Memoir - Hardcover

"As a prose stylist, Nordan is capable of a range of effects from the broadest slapstick comedy to the subtlest evocations of the lush, dangerous beauty of delta and swamp." --The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"What he alone brings to the page is the courage to use nothing less than black powder prose itself to blast some sense into us no matter where we've come to ground." --The Miami Herald

"In Nordan's skillful hands facts become slippery, magical, humorous, and black." --The Houston Post

"Flights of fancy keep bumping into the hard facts of life." --Newsweek

"He conjures up a Southern-fried childhood that's as dark, hilarious and affecting as any you're likely to encounter." --The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)

"A master of 'the landscapes of the broken heart.'" --St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"...The reason nothing is sacred to him is because everything appears holy with him." --*Nashville Banner

"If you call yourself a serious reader but still haven't discovered Lewis Nordan, shame on you." --The Seattle Times