A Booklist Book of the Year 2011
Finalist for SCIBA’s 2011 Fiction Award
Winner of the 2011 Midwest Booksellers Choice Award
Winner of the first annual Indie Booksellers Choice Award
Selected for IndieBound’s March 2011 Indie Next List, “Great Reads from Booksellers You Trust”
Featured in O, The Oprah Magazine‘s March 2011 Reading Room section as one of 10 Titles to Pick Up Now

“Revoyr does a remarkable job of conveying [protagonist] Michelle’s lost innocence and fear through this accomplished story of family and the dangers of complacency in the face of questionable justice.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“Revoyr writes rhapsodically of a young girl’s enthrallment to the natural world and charts, with rising intensity, her resilient narrator’s painful awakening to human failings and senseless violence. In this shattering northern variation on To Kill A Mockingbird, Revoyr drives to the very heart of tragic ignorance, unreason, and savagery.”
—Booklist (starred review)

“Hauntingly provocative . . . an excellent choice for book discussion groups as it will force readers to dig deep and look inward.”
—Library Journal

“Gripping and insightful.”
—Kirkus Reviews

“A searing, anguished novel . . . The narration and pace are expertly calibrated as it explores a topic one wishes still wasn’t so current.”
—Los Angeles Times

“Much can be said and commended about the book’s themes of loyalty and love . . . I’ll just say that this author is a big talent. Her book is a little thing of beauty. It’s a story with American historical significance; it’s a novel with emotional heft; it’s a satisfying read in the spirit of what Picasso said about another writer, James Joyce: ‘The incomprehensible that everyone can understand.'”
—Brooklyn Rail

“Revoyr has written a searing portrait of the all-too-recent past, of a place where change comes slowly and painfully, and of a girl just trying to find her own space in the world.”
—Wichita Eagle

“Wingshooters understands what many of us know from experience: that love and hate can spring from the same source, that bigotry can coexist in the hearts of people who have shown us the tenderest of love.”
—Hyphen magazine

“Nina Revoyr’s young protagonist and her searing, skillfully told story are unforgettable. Don’t miss it.”
—Marian Wright Edelman, President, Children’s Defense Fund

“Nina Revoyr is one of my favorite writers. What I admire most is the compassion she shows for her often flawed characters. Wingshooters is a gem of a novel—filled with beautiful language, thoughtful observations on life, deep heartache, and determined acceptance.”
—Lisa See, author of Shanghai Girls

More Praise for Nina Revoyr:

“If Oprah still had her book club, this novel likely would be at the top of her list.”
—Booklist (starred review), on Southland

“Revoyr is fast becoming one of the city’s finest chroniclers and mythmakers.”
—Los Angeles Magazine, on The Age of Dreaming