This is not merely a stellar book. It is absolute ballad put to page. Southern Living Lewis Nordans fiction invents its own worldalways populated by madly heroic misfits. In Music of the Swamp he focuses his magic and imagination on a boys utterly helpless love for his utterly hopeless fathera man who attracts bad luck like a magnet. Nordan evokes tenyearold Sugar Mecklins world with dazzling clarity the smells the tastes and most surely the sounds of life in this peculiar somewhat bizar