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Reviews
"Despite its designation as an "incomplete work" . . . its dry wit and gorgeous intimacy with the natural world make it as satisfying as anything Brown wrote. At the end of its 464 pages, the only thing readers will miss is the craftsman himself."
— Outside magazine
“The most compassionate of writers, Brown loves every living no-good heart he commits to paper. . . . A Miracle of Catfish yields so many pleasures, it hurts to say so.”
— New York Times Book Review
“A Miracle of Catfish is vintage Brown. It's driven by terse sentences, haunting images and a sense of place you can almost smell and taste . . . [and] filled with memorable characters. . . . Brown was a writer who was never writerly. He was never self-consciously literary, yet created a literature that will last.”
— USA Today
“Brimming with humor and sympathy for the hardscrabble lives of ordinary people. The only flaw is that it's the last Larry Brown novel we'll be lucky enough to read.”
—People
“A Southern noir stylist publishes his best work. . . . When the novelist Larry Brown died in November 2004, the nation lost an irreplaceable literary voice. Spare, bluesy, and grimly beautiful, his books mapped the rough contours of life in his native north Mississippi. . . . His best work may have been A Miracle of Catfish. . . . Miracle is classic Larry, gritty and unflinching, with a wide-as-an-interstate streak of mischief running through its center. . . . [Brown is] a fierce and natural writer, a once-in-a-lifetime comet of big, bad, raw talent.”
—Men's Journal
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