“Mr. Raney named the porpoises - Sister Woman, and Renford, and Lamar, and St. Elmo - and could recognize them, and call each by its name, even at night, six feet long, some of them, with a million sharp teeth… — Lewis Nordan Copy Share Image
“She said, "Daddy thinks that all the world's magic is almost evolved out." I thought of Roebuck Lake, its swamps and sloughs and loblollies… — Lewis Nordan Copy Share Image
“Roy Dale suspected that Mississippi was beautiful. He wasn't sure. He didn't have anything to compare it to. He hadn't even ever been out… — Lewis Nordan Copy Share Image
“Big G.B. said, "Your Daddy ain't magic." I said, "He ain't?" He said, "Naw, there ain't any magic." I said, "What about the blind… — Lewis Nordan Copy Share Image
A thousand times, when the train slowed or stopped, I thought of jumping off. I wanted to die in a ditch. I wanted to… — Lewis Nordan Copy Share Image
“When I was your age I knew how to listen to television and learn a few things.” — Lewis Nordan Copy Share Image
The Mississippi Delta is not always dark with rain. Some autumn mornings, the sun rises over Moon Lake, or Eagle, or Choctaw, or Blue,… — Lewis Nordan Copy Share Image
“Self-blame is usually a way of avoiding something more hideous anyway, something you’re willing to be punished for but unwilling to change, or even… — Lewis Nordan Copy Share Image
“Mr. Raney named the porpoises - Sister Woman, and Renford, and Lamar, and St. Elmo - and could recognize them, and call each by… — Lewis Nordan Copy Share Image
Even Solon Gregg was finding it hard to speak to a woman who had just paid hard cash for tampons and on her face… — Lewis Nordan Copy Share Image
“The day Glenn Gregg's daddy got back from New Orleans was the same day Lady Sally Anne Montberclair decided to park her big white… — Lewis Nordan Copy Share Image
“Alice leaned first one way and then the other, down the line of children. She said, Is everybody understanding this?" One child said, "The… — Lewis Nordan Copy Share Image
In my mind, I gave the woman gifts. I gave her a candle stub. I gave her a box of wooden kitchen matches. I… — Lewis Nordan Copy Share Image
