Boy with Loaded Gun

Name: Boy with Loaded Gun
Author: Lewis Nordan

by Lewis Nordan

Boy's coming-of-age through violence, masculinity, and Mississippi's racial landscape

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Lewis Nordan

Lewis Nordan was a Mississippi writer of comic Gothic fiction whose Wolf Whistle imaginatively retells the Emmett Till murder through the lens of Southern grotesque and magical realism. His work is sorrowful and funny in equal measure.

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