A Strange Detached Fragment

by Jim McMurtray

Overview

The Mississippi Delta is both a real and a mythical place. This story of a boy's childhood is set in that strange and remarkable part of the world that is home to some of the richest farmland and some of the poorest people in America. A significant portion of America's art, literature and music has come from the Mississippi Delta. Those who have never been there cannot imagine the place, and those who have lived there cannot forget it.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940162006299
Publisher:	James W. McMurtray
Publication date:	07/14/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Jim McMurtray has been a science teacher, a planetarium director, a NASA lecturer and Executive Director of a science and mathematics non-profit in Washington DC. He has retired from all that and now spends his time playing with grandchildren, building boats (some you can sit in and some that sit in bottles), making unlikely things out of paper, and writing novels. He has seen a lot of amazing things and actually remembers some of them. He is sometimes considered old and wise, but only one of these claims is verifiable. He does not always follow his own advice, but he has enormous respect for it.
McMurtray has written six novels, Kicked (2018), Instrument (2016), Pathogen (2015), A Strange Detached Fragment (2015), Accountable (2014 and The Ice and the Stars (2009). He is the author of Barbarian Science, a humorous book on science literacy in America, (1999), and Starlight, a nationally distributed planetarium show on the physics of stars (1981). He founded AltAzimuth Media in 2013 to promote his work and other creative projects. He still writes and speaks on systems thinking and structural reform in science, technology, and mathematics education. His eyebrows are natural and have never been trimmed.
Website: jim-mcmurtray.com

Editorial Reviews

This book may be fiction, but it is nothing but the true Delta! Truth about feelings between PEOPLE, not race are refreshing to read.
Some scenes are hysterical and others tug at the heart.
Must read!!!!

Amazon - Eva Champion