by Nickolas Butler
What a great novel. Male and female characters so real and compelling, the setting beautifully rendered, tension artfully built to the very end. The plot would not have made sense with any other group of characters or any other setting, but was unique to the world the author created, and to me tha...
Title: Shotgun Lovesongs Who wrote it? Nickolas Butler, debut novelist and Iowa Writers’ Workshop alumnus. Plot in a Box: With apologies for the excessive hyphenation, four childhood friends battle thirty-something white-person problems in small-town Wisconsin. Invent a new title for thi...
I received this book as an ARC from the publisher.Sometimes you feel like watching a blockbuster movie like Iron Man and sometimes you feel like taking a timeout and watching an indie movie like Nebraska or Juno. This book reminds of an indie movie. It plopped me into someone else's life for a few...
Loved this one. Maybe part of it was because I grew up exactly where it was set, knew the towns mentioned and could picture the setting. But it was more than that. I loved the characters. They walked off the page. I suspect this will be a big book of 2014.
2.5 Stars
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