“Remembering Blue is a hymn of praise to the breathtaking beauty of the Gulf Coast of Florida and the men and women who love that coast with every cell of their bodies. Nick Blue is an extraordinary creation, so life-affirming and vibrant that he makes you shiver with the pleasure of his maleness. The story of Nick and Mattie Blue centers this novel and makes it soar, the way great love stories are supposed to do.” — Pat Conroy, author of The Prince of Tides and Beach Music
“A thrilling story . . . Fowler’s language sings a sea-song we need to hear.” — Sena Jeter Naslund, author of Ahab’s Wife
“A book with heart and soul . . . You can almost hear the waves crashing and taste the ocean’s salty breeze in this love story set along Florida’s Gulf Coast. . . . Up until the moment when Mattie O’Rourke locks eyes with her future husband, her life has offered nothing but hardship. . . . Then Nick Blue walks into the convenience store where Mattie works, and she falls hard for the stranger with the curly black hair and brilliant blue eyes. Nick, however, has his own demons. . . . Readers won’t forget Mattie or Nick Blue anytime soon.” — New York Post
“With narrator Mattie Blue, Fowler has created one of the wisest, wittiest, and most endearing young women found in contemporary fiction.” — Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
“Fascinating . . . Fowler is at her best. . . . A compelling story of the healing power of love and memory.” — Seattle Times
“Perhaps Nick and Mattie Blue should set the standard for lovers in the twenty-first century. If the rest of us follow their example, we too might learn to be: impulsive without being foolhardy; steadfast without being boring; romantic without being cloying; and gone without being forgotten. . . . Fowler’s exquisite writing guides the story, and leaves the readers touched, torn, and singing the praises of love.” — Orlando Sentinel
