While the humor . Nordan turns up the emotional heat, revs up the language and the work significantly deepens. His fine sense of black comedy perfectly balances the harsh reality of his tales.
Horrible things happen, and horribly funny things, too.
He understands the tragedy of life as it plays itself out. The man is writing out of the earth. There is a very physical reality about Nordan's characters and settings. Nothing is mere adornment. Everything is of the mud of the earth.