Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - His third book, the story of three summers in the life of a boy in the Mississippi Delta (where Nordan himself grew up) and of his hopeless love for his hopeless father. Winner of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Literature and selected by the American Library Association as one of the 12 best fiction books of 1991. 191 pp. ISBN: 0-945575-769.