Music of the Swamp - Paperback

from toastytoesthebear

This book follows the boyhood episodes of Sugar Mecklin's life in the southern U.S. He lives a pitiful life with adults who are hurting and who hurt him even as they love him. The relationships are painful yet realistic, and the love, when it does surface, is breath-taking. Sugar is gifted with s...

from Sean191

I think I could have written a review on this book before I even read it. Algonquin books more than any other publisher I'm familiar with has a type of book they put out. In fact, I would go as far as to say Algonquin is the Sub Pop Records of the publishing world. What that means is that they pu...

from bookczuk

Quirky and colorful, with an endearing central character -- a boy whose eyes see beyond surface of the small delta town in which he lives, and dips into the magic and mystery of the imagination. Descriptions of the everyday that will knock your socks off. Stories that will have you smiling one mo...

from melmmo

A collection of interconnected stories involving the same character, Sugar Mecklin, told in a memoir style. The prose is just gorgeous. Some of the descriptive passages almost took my breath away. While stunningly realistic, some stories also work in elements of magical realism - and the juxtapos...

from cdyankeefan

Through interconnected stories Music of the Swamp is a coming of age story of Sugar growing up poor in the Mississippi Delta. Beautifully written Sugar's life revolves around his alcoholic father,a frustrated mother and an assortment of neighborhood characters and relatives frustrated with the re...