# Snapper

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- Book: [Snapper](https://www.bookquiver.com/brian-kimberling/snapper) ([Snapper.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/brian-kimberling/snapper.md))
- Authors: [Brian Kimberling](https://www.bookquiver.com/brian-kimberling)
- Publisher: tinder_press
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-07-5539-622-1
- Published: 2013-04-23
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

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.