Wolf Whistle

This award-wining novel inspired by the Emmett Till murder is "a masterful, penetrating retelling of an American tragedy" (Boston Globe).

An ALA Notable BookWinner of the Mississippi Writers Award for Fiction and the Southern Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction

In Wolf Whistle, Lewis Nordan unleashes the hellhounds of his prodigious imagination on one of the most notorious racial killings of the century, the Emmett Till murder. Soon we're on a magical mystery tour of the Southern psyche of the mid-1950s and the dawning of guilt and recognition in a whole generation of white Southerners.

"Lewis Nordan has come as near as any writer yet—maybe nearer—to displaying the naked heart of this country's embedded racism." —William Faulkner Award-winning author Reynolds Price

"Sad, violent, funny, fascinating, most of all compassionate—Nordan has written true history, he has tracked the emotional interior of his homeland." —Men's Journal

"Nordan has turned notorious fact into scorching fiction." —The Virginian-Pilot & Ledger-Star

"An immense and wall-shattering display of talent. Wolf Whistle will help usher Lewis Nordan into the Hall of Fame of American Letters." —The Nation