Few authors are able to strike at the hearts of a reader quite like Nickolas Butler. His first novel, Shotgun Lovesongs, was brilliant and put its finger on the pulse of a vein of American life in a way that neither glorified nor condemned life in a small town. In his latest, The Hearts of Men, Butler pours some of his own experiences into a novel about boy scouting, a lifetime … [Read more...]
Shotgun Lovesongs – A Must Read!
If you grow up in a small town and head out to the big city, can you ever really come home again? That's the central question wrapped within Shotgun Lovesongs: A Novel by Nickolas Butler. Butler tells a story of dreams, sacrifice, and loss through the eyes and actions of a core group of childhood friends who, for one reason or another, have come home to lick their … [Read more...]