In my mind, I gave the woman gifts. I gave her a candle stub. I gave her a box of wooden kitchen matches. I gave her a cake of Lifebuoy soap. I gave her a ceilingful of glow-in-the-dark planets. I… — 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 and breaks of cypress and cane, its sunken treetops and stobs and bream beds and sleepy gar rolling over and over and over, its baptizing pools and bridges and mussels and mosquitoes and turkey vultures and,… — Lewis Nordan Copy Share
“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 man's dummy? Is Joesph of Arimathea magic?" He said, "Get your shotgun, Sugar." I went to the corner near the stove and took my shotgun by the barrel. I got my shell bag and looked at… — Lewis Nordan Copy Share
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
