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Synopsis
One day Lindy Simpson cycles home from school and straight into a trap: someone is lying in wait for her, a wire strung between lampposts blocking the path. She is raped just yards from her front door. No one sees a thing and the perpetrator is not caught.
Her fourteen-year-old neighbour has loved Lindy from afar since they were kids. He becomes determined to solve the crime, investigating each suspect in the neighbourhood. But before the long, hot summer is out, it will become clear that the friendly community of Baton Rouge has much to hide. Behind the picket fences and rocking chairs on porches, behind the neighbourhood cookouts on sweltering afternoons, the vats of cold beer and cauldrons of spicy crawfish, lies a tangled web of darkness.
In his zeal to solve the crime, he stumbles across a sinister world he doesn't recognize, drawing ever closer to a terrifying denouement.
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About the Author
M. O. Walsh grew up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He has written for Oxford American and The New York Times and his stories have been anthologized in Best New American Voices and Bar Stories. He currently teaches English at the University of New Orleans. My Sunshine Away is his first novel.
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'I should tell you now that I was one of the suspects.
Hear me out.
Let me explain . . .'
One hot evening in early summer, 1989, fifteen-year-old Lindy Simpson cycles home through the wide, empty streets of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Her hometown is a place of cookouts on sweltering afternoons, iced tea and cauldrons of spicy crawfish, crepe myrtle trees heavy with red and purple blossoms. Lindy is just yards from her parents' house when she is knocked to the sidewalk and raped.
No one saw anything - they were indoors, escaping the sticky heat, the mosquitoes. The police draw a blank and the traumatized community does its best to rebuild and move on.
But one fourteen-year-old boy is sure there are answers still waiting to be found - out there on the swept and empty porches, by the lawns steaming in the early morning sun, under the newly broken street lamp. Secretly in love with Lindy and fascinated by her ordeal, he is drawn onward in a search for truths that may be better left buried...
Acutely wise and deeply honest, My Sunshine Away is a mesmerizing journey through the final days of childhood. M. O. Walsh spins a haunting tale of Southern suburbia, where innocence is fleeting, deceptive and all too easily corrupted.
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- PublisherViking
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 0241004063
- ISBN 13 9780241004067
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages304
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Seller: Barclay Books, York, WA, Australia
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Paperback. 1. 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. Seller Inventory # 3953838
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