diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index d0a4ac7e..544bde40 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ Imports:
     jsonlite,
     lubridate,
     methods,
-    arrow,
+    nanoparquet,
     purrr,
     readr,
     rlang,
diff --git a/R/utils.R b/R/utils.R
index b163b903..53199184 100644
--- a/R/utils.R
+++ b/R/utils.R
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ soql_nullable_select <- function(soql_list, columns) {
 #' file reader/writer function, which will be one of
 #' [readr::read_csv()] / [readr::write_csv()],
 #' [readr::read_tsv()] / [readr::write_tsv()], and
-#' [arrow::read_parquet()] / [arrow::write_parquet()],
+#' [nanoparquet::read_parquet()] / [nanoparquet::write_parquet()],
 #' depending on the file format.
 #' @return For `read_tabular_file`, the result of
 #' reading in the file, as a
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ read_tabular_file <- function(path_to_file, ...) {
   file_readers <- c(
     "tsv" = readr::read_tsv,
     "csv" = readr::read_csv,
-    "parquet" = arrow::read_parquet
+    "parquet" = nanoparquet::read_parquet
   )
 
   checkmate::assert_names(file_format, subset.of = names(file_readers))
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ write_tabular_file <- function(table, path_to_file, ...) {
   file_writers <- c(
     "tsv" = readr::write_tsv,
     "csv" = readr::write_csv,
-    "parquet" = arrow::write_parquet
+    "parquet" = nanoparquet::write_parquet
   )
 
   checkmate::assert_names(file_format, subset.of = names(file_writers))
diff --git a/man/read_tabular_file.Rd b/man/read_tabular_file.Rd
index bb478bcf..79555e3d 100644
--- a/man/read_tabular_file.Rd
+++ b/man/read_tabular_file.Rd
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Must have extension \code{.tsv}, \code{.csv}, or \code{.parquet}
 file reader/writer function, which will be one of
 \code{\link[readr:read_delim]{readr::read_csv()}} / \code{\link[readr:write_delim]{readr::write_csv()}},
 \code{\link[readr:read_delim]{readr::read_tsv()}} / \code{\link[readr:write_delim]{readr::write_tsv()}}, and
-\code{\link[arrow:read_parquet]{arrow::read_parquet()}} / \code{\link[arrow:write_parquet]{arrow::write_parquet()}},
+\code{\link[nanoparquet:read_parquet]{nanoparquet::read_parquet()}} / \code{\link[nanoparquet:write_parquet]{nanoparquet::write_parquet()}},
 depending on the file format.}
 
 \item{table}{Table to write (\code{write_tabular_file} only).}