{"product_id":"9781565127838","title":"Music of the Swamp","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“This is not merely a stellar book. It is absolute ballad put to page.” —\u003ci\u003eSouthern Living\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLewis Nordan’s fiction invents its own world--always populated by madly heroic misfits. In \u003ci\u003eMusic of the Swamp,\u003c\/i\u003e he focuses his magic and imagination on a boy’s utterly helpless love for his utterly hopeless father--a man who attracts bad luck like a magnet. Nordan evokes ten-year-old Sugar Mecklin’s world with dazzling clarity: the smells, the tastes, and most surely the sounds of life in this peculiar, somewhat bizarre, Delta town. Sugar discovers that what his daddy says is true: “The Delta is filled up with death”; but he also finds an endless supply of hope.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn ALA Notable Book\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Fiction Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47137802780912,"sku":"9781565127838","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781565127838_p0.jpg?v=1763788358","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781565127838","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}