My Sunshine Away
Author(s): M. O. Walsh
SECONDHAND BOOKS | Literary Fiction
The debut novel everyone is talking about...
"The last page is as satisfying as the first." --Kathryn Stockett
"I really loved this book... I can't praise it enough."--Anne Rice
"It's a book to read and reread, one that will only get better with time."--Tom Franklin
It was the summer everything changed....
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 Simpson--free spirit, track star, and belle of the block--experiences 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.
Penguin, 2015. A trade paperback copy in near fine condition.
Product Information
General Fields
- :
- : Penguin Books, Limited
- : Viking
- : 0.404
- : 31 January 2015
- : 23.00 cmmm X 15.20 cmmm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : 304
- : very good
- : 813/.6
- : en
- : 1
- : Paperback
- : M. O. Walsh