My Sunshine Away
A Novel
New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, [2015]
Format: Book
Description: 306 pages ; 24 cm
The debut novel everyone is talking about... ÂThe last page is as satisfying as the first." ÂKathryn Stockett ÂI really loved this book... I can't praise it enough."ÂAnne Rice ÂIt's a book to read and reread, one that will only get better with time."ÂTom Franklin It was the summer everything changed.Â
My Sunshine Away unfolds in a Baton Rouge neighborhood best known for cookouts on sweltering summer afternoons, cauldrons of spicy crawfish, and passionate football fandom. But in the summer of 1989, when fifteen-year-old Lindy SimpsonÂfree spirit, track star, and belle of the blockÂexperiences a horrible crime late one evening near her home, it becomes apparent that this idyllic stretch of Southern suburbia has a dark side, too.
In My Sunshine Away , M.O. Walsh brilliantly juxtaposes the enchantment of a charmed childhood with the gripping story of a violent crime, unraveling families, and consuming adolescent love. Acutely wise and deeply honest, it is an astonishing and page-turning debut about the meaning of family, the power of memory, and our ability to forgive.
In My Sunshine Away , M.O. Walsh brilliantly juxtaposes the enchantment of a charmed childhood with the gripping story of a violent crime, unraveling families, and consuming adolescent love. Acutely wise and deeply honest, it is an astonishing and page-turning debut about the meaning of family, the power of memory, and our ability to forgive.
Subjects:
Families -- Louisiana -- Fiction.
Dysfunctional families -- Fiction.
First loves -- Fiction.
Families -- Louisiana -- Fiction.
Dysfunctional families -- Fiction.
First loves -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780399169526 (hbk.)
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