Snapper
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With wry humour and real freshness, SNAPPER charts the disastrous love affair between career birdwatcher Nathan Lochmueller and the place that made him.
Set in a brilliantly observed rural Indiana, 'the bastard son of the Midwest', SNAPPER is a book about birdwatching, a woman who won't stay true, and a pick-up truck that won't start. Here turtles eat alligators for breakfast, Klansmen skulk in the undergrowth, and truckers drop into the diner of a town named Santa Claus to ensure that no child's Christmas letter goes unanswered, while Nathan grapples with the eternal question: should I stay, or should I go? Kimberling's vision of small-town life is as characterful as Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon, but bristling with the tensions of race, class, poverty and prejudice, it makes for a bracing read.
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Praise for Snapper
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Superb... always engaging, sometimes beautiful and often funny' - Telegraph
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Captivating... Snapper could do for birdwatchers what Annie Proulx did for small-town newspaper reporters and cowboys - Independent on Sunday
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Funny and adroit fiction - Margaret Atwood, via Twitter
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Delightfully entertaining - Esquire
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Brilliant... an absolute joy of a book. I predict big things for it - Scott Pack, Me and My Big Mouth
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Brimming with unusual characters and hilarious idisoyncracies... Kimberling shows much promise - Shortlist
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Fascinating and captivating - Washington Post
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Funny and absorbing' - Booklist
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