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towercity's review
Lewis nordan has this great way of creating unreal spaces where characters can speak their deepest fears and pathologies like jokes, in this book more than anywhere, which makes his novels seem to take place exactly where and when you read it, and that's great
g_uhrinek's review
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
alisong4's review
4.0
I found this on a list of "best authors you've never read" and it did not disappoint. The beautiful language dropped me right into the Mississippi Delta and Arrow Catcher, MS with its quirky characters who are as funny as they are heartbreaking. The smart, quiet statement the author makes about America's obsession with guns is quite powerful. (less)
aughraseye's review
5.0
I could not put this book down. A somtimes sad, occasionally funny, partly oddball, but overall beautifully told story.
jamiereadthis's review against another edition
4.0
A mad, mad world, one that Nordan creates in the same lightning storm as Wolf Whistle. Again, nothing about this should work, and again, so help me, it does. It’s good and evil, it’s love and tragedy, it’s madness and grace. “It might just be a story,” as the sweet, doomed Hydro muses, “like so much else in the world.”
But, in Arrow Catcher, Mississippi, as everywhere: “As long as there was a story, that’s all that really mattered.”
But, in Arrow Catcher, Mississippi, as everywhere: “As long as there was a story, that’s all that really mattered.”
Hydro fell in love with the sharpshooter. He didn’t love him as much as he loved his daddy, who shot the refrigerator for love and a memory of the heart; and Hydro’s bones didn’t ache for him the way they ached for his mama, who he never knew, a long time gone; and he didn’t even love him as much as he loved Louis, the strange child who shared Wonder Woman and Green Hornet— but you couldn’t watch anything as beautiful as two melons busting open and slick seeds blowing out into a sugarcane field without falling in love.
waywardtomes's review against another edition
5.0
I read this in middle school and I loved it then. I am really feeling like I need to re-read it just for old times sake.
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